brew tap homebrew/cask-versions
brew install --cask mixxx-snapshot

Unofficial snapshot builds of the free and open source DJ software Mixxx for macOS (arm64/Apple Silicon, x86-64/Intel) and Linux (x86-64).

Get the most recent binaries from GitHub Releases here.

Alternatively you can install m1xxx via Homebrew using

brew tap fwcd/fwcd
brew install --cask m1xxx

This has the additional advantage of making it easy to upgrade or remove m1xxx.

Mixxx traditionally only provided builds for x86-64 macOS. While these run fine under Rosetta 2, native Mixxx builds for arm64 run at roughly half the CPU load and feel noticeably more snappy than the x86-64 version.

This repo provides native builds for arm64 that are cross-compiled from GitHub's x86-64 Actions runners.

Both the mixxx and the vcpkg branch now use the official upstream revisions.

While the CI workflows in this repo mainly deal with the case of cross-compiling Mixxx from x86-64 macOS runners to arm64, it is also possible to compile directly from an arm64 macOS (Apple Silicon) host.

First, make sure to have Homebrew installed and the submodules in this repo checked out (using git submodule update). To install the system dependencies, run:

scripts/install-macos-deps

To compile and install Mixxx's dependencies into vcpkg run:

scripts/bootstrap-vcpkg
scripts/install-vcpkg-deps

To build Mixxx, run:

scripts/configure-mixxx
scripts/build-mixxx

Thanks to daschuer for the work involved in backporting the relevant Qt patches, parts of the CI workflows and assistance in building the dependencies!