# Building julia on MacOS 10.12.2

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**Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/building-julia-on-macos-10-12-2/1065/5 "2017-02-02T13:47:56Z")

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Im running into the same issue of building from source

what are the minimun versions of compilers and cmake required  
Ive tried using latest gcc 6.3 and gcc that come as default on the system  
for example  
export CC=/usr/bin/clang  
export CXX=/usr/bin/clang++  
export CPP=/usr/bin/cpp  
export LD=/usr/bin/ld  
alias c++=/usr/bin/c++  
alias g++=/usr/bin/g++  
alias gcc=/usr/bin/clang  
alias cpp=/usr/bin/clang++  
alias cc=/usr/bin/gcc  
alias ld=/usr/bin/ld

I smylink gcc to usr/local/bin  
for the latest packages of the compiler  
neither seems to work  
anything I should be trying

tks  
M

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