Can't run gazebo on Mac OSX

ArduCopter
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Hi,
I have been trying for a wile to run Ardupilot with Gazebo on Mac OS X. However I have not yet figured out a way to make it work. I tried to follow these instructions

git clone https://github.com/SwiftGust/ardupilot_gazebo
cd ardupilot_gazebo
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j4
sudo make install

But when I run cmake … I got this error:

-- Checking for module 'bullet>=2.82'
--   No package 'bullet' found
-- Checking for module 'bullet2.82>=2.82'
--   No package 'bullet2.82' found
CMake Error at /usr/local/lib/cmake/gazebo/gazebo-config.cmake:103

Can someone help me ?

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Hi @Dives44, Gazebo with ArduPilot - SITL will run on macOS.

The first question is do you have Gazebo running stand alone on your mac? The Gazebo installation instructions for Mac (using homebrew) will install Gazebo9 using brew and should include the physics engine dependencies that you appear to me missing. You can also run Gazebo11 if you build from source (but you need a lot more patience for that).