CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT ----------------- Specify the location or name of the macOS platform SDK to be used. CMake uses this value to compute the value of the ``-isysroot`` flag or equivalent and to help the ``find_*`` commands locate files in the SDK. If not set explicitly, the value is initialized by the ``SDKROOT`` environment variable, if set. Otherwise, the value defaults to empty, so no explicit ``-isysroot`` flag is passed, and the compiler's default sysroot is used. .. versionchanged:: 4.0 The default is now empty. Previously a default was computed based on the :variable:`CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET` or the host platform. .. note:: Xcode's compilers, when not invoked with ``-isysroot``, search for headers in ``/usr/local/include`` before system SDK paths, matching the convention on many platforms. Users on macOS-x86_64 hosts with Homebrew installed in ``/usr/local`` should pass ``-DCMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT=macosx``, or ``export SDKROOT=macosx``, when not building with Homebrew tools. .. include:: CMAKE_OSX_VARIABLE.txt