
On macOS you can use tools like homebrew to get the dependencies, or build the dependencies manually. For an easy guide to building Krita see Building Krita on Linux for Cats. Linux is the easiest operating system to build Krita on because all the libraries that Krita needs are available on most recent Linux distributions. The libraries Krita needs (for instance to load and save various image types) are called dependencies.

You can build Krita on Linux, Windows, macOS and on Linux for Android. Using prebuilt dependencies from the binary factory If you merely want to run the latest version of Krita, to test a bug or play with, you can use the nightly build for Windows the nightly build for Linux, or the nightly build for macOS. If you want to help developing Krita, you need to know how to build Krita yourself.
