Complete beginner on MacOS

[hajjsson]

Hello guys, i would like some help compiling and running a server locally on MacOS

The main reason is doing some mapping and testing.

Any Mac user out here?

 

[Mooosie]

I'm on Mac too, and for local mapping/testing I would rather use Docker than fight native setup first.
Its basically just running the server inside a Linux container on your Mac, which makes the setup easier to reproduce.
Not "Ubuntu" exactly though.
For just local tests, thats probably the smoothest start.
If you also need a client on Mac, OTClient has OS X build docs too.

Later on when you see that everything compiles through your docker and want to host it, try to mimic same version of linux on your server.