# Homebrew packages for ccx and cgx for macOS

**URL:** <https://calculix.discourse.group/t/homebrew-packages-for-ccx-and-cgx-for-macos/2729>\
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**Created:** [May 6, 2025, 9:18am UTC](https://calculix.discourse.group/t/homebrew-packages-for-ccx-and-cgx-for-macos/2729 "2025-05-06T09:18:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Durbul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@Durbul](https://calculix.discourse.group/u/Durbul)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 9:18am UTC](https://calculix.discourse.group/t/homebrew-packages-for-ccx-and-cgx-for-macos/2729/1 "2025-05-06T09:18:36Z")

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For all macOS users, building current versions (2.22) of CalculiX CrunchiX (ccx) and CalculiX GraphiX (cgx) should now be much easier with the [homebrew](https://brew.sh/) formulae provided by:

> **[GitHub - costerwi/homebrew-calculix: Calculix FEA for the Homebrew package manager](https://github.com/costerwi/homebrew-calculix)**
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> Calculix FEA for the Homebrew package manager

Some notes:

- calculix-ccx comes with a multi-threading (MT) enabled build of SPOOLES and uses [arpack-ng](https://github.com/opencollab/arpack-ng)
- calculix-cgx relies on [XQuartz](https://github.com/XQuartz/), which is also available on homebrew

I tested both packages on an Apple M2 Arm chip (see [Add a formula for cgx (CalculiX GraphiX) by Durbul · Pull Request #8 · costerwi/homebrew-calculix · GitHub](https://github.com/costerwi/homebrew-calculix/pull/8) for an example).  
Hope this helps some macOS users out there 🙂

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**Author:** ![jbr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecccb3/32.png) [@jbr](https://calculix.discourse.group/u/jbr)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 10:44am UTC](https://calculix.discourse.group/t/homebrew-packages-for-ccx-and-cgx-for-macos/2729/2 "2025-05-06T10:44:19Z")

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Thanks for reporting out