Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra or later.
You can download Karabiner-Elements from official site.
You can download previous versions of Karabiner-Elements from here.
- macOS Sierra (10.12)
- macOS High Sierra (10.13)
- macOS Mojave (10.14)
- macOS Catalina (10.15)
https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/docs/
If you would like to contribute financially to the development of Karabiner Elements, donations can be made via https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/docs/pricing/
System requirements to build Karabiner-Elements:
- macOS 10.14+
- Xcode 10+
- Command Line Tools for Xcode
- CMake (
brew install cmake
)
Clone the source from github.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements.git
cd Karabiner-Elements
make package
The make
script will create a redistributable Karabiner-Elements-VERSION.dmg in the current directory.
Karabiner-Elements uses some pre-built binaries in the source tree.
src/vendor/Karabiner-VirtualHIDDevice/dist/*.kext
src/vendor/Sparkle/Sparkle.framework
Above make package
command does not rebuild these binaries.
(These binaries will be copied in the distributed package.)
If you want to rebuild these binaries, you have to build them manually.
Please follow the instruction of these projects.
If you want to build kext in Karabiner-VirtualHIDDevice, macOS requires a valid certificate which be able to sign the built kext.
Unless such certificate, macOS refuses to load the built kext.
Please read a documentation about System Integrity Protection Guide for more details.
(We are including the pre-built kext binary to avoid the restriction that macOS requires a uncommon certificate.)