https://mragui.dev/tags/fritzing/Recent content in Fritzing on MrAguiHugoenThu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mragui.dev/posts/building-fritzing-on-macos/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mragui.dev/posts/building-fritzing-on-macos/<p><a href="https://fritzing.org">Fritzing</a> is a great tool for breadboard, schematic and PCB diagrams. It&rsquo;s open source (GPLv3), but the prebuilt binaries are a paid download. You can build it yourself, but on macOS the build is fiddly: Fritzing expects a very specific set of dependencies in specific places.</p> <p>So I wrapped the whole build in one script: <strong><a href="https://github.com/AguiMr/Fritzing-macos">Fritzing-macos</a></strong>.</p> <h2 id="usage">Usage</h2> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#e6edf3;background-color:#0d1117;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>git clone https://github.com/AguiMr/Fritzing-macos.git </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>cd Fritzing-macos </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>chmod +x build_fritzing_macos.sh </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>./build_fritzing_macos.sh </span></span></code></pre></div><p>You need <a href="https://brew.sh">Homebrew</a> and the Xcode Command Line Tools. If the tools are missing, the script starts their install and asks you to run it again. The first build takes about 20–40 minutes. After that, re-running skips everything that&rsquo;s already built.</p>