---
title: Building mozc for macOS
date: 2022-05-20T00:00:00
---

[Mozc](https://github.com/google/mozc) is an open-source counterpart of Google Japanese Input, a Japanese input method developed by Google.

## Build environment

```
$ sw_vers
ProductName:	macOS
ProductVersion:	12.6.1
BuildVersion:	21G217

$ xcodebuild -version
Xcode 14.1
Build version 14B47b
```

## Build mozc

```bash
# Install dependencies
brew install qt@5 bazel packages

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/google/mozc -b master --single-branch --recursive

# Build
cd mozc/src
MOZC_QT_PATH=/usr/local/opt/qt@5 ANDROID_NDK_HOME= bazel build package --config macos -c opt

# Install
open bazel-bin/mac/Mozc.pkg
reboot
```