HHVM's OS X support is still fairly experimental. It should be fine for development, but Linux is still the recommended OS for production usage.
brew tap hhvm/hhvm
# install the latest version of HHVM:
brew install hhvm
# ... or install the latest 3.21.z release:
brew install hhvm@3.21-lts
# ... or install a preview of 3.24:
brew install hhvm-preview
If you need to install multiple versions, look at the documentation for
brew switch, brew link, and brew unlink.
We currently provide bottles (binary packages) for Sierra and High Sierra. Earlier versions of MacOS are not supported as HHVM requires recent XCode.
If you build from source, this will take anywhere from twenty minutes on a beefy Mac Pro to a couple of hours on a MacBook Air.
- Only issues with the packaging itself which don't require a change to HHVM should be reported here. This includes things like missing dependencies or an out-of-date formula.
- Most issues should be reported
directly to the HHVM project since
they will need to be fixed there. This includes everything from "this code
doesn't work on OS X" to "
--HEADdoesn't build".