🍺 ros2-jazzy is now available on Homebrew!

[idesign0]

All three ROS 2 distros are now native on Homebrew-macOS:

brew tap idesign0/ros2

brew install ros2-humble
brew install ros2-jazzy
brew install ros2-kilted

One tap to get ROS 2 Jazzy with full simulation and robotics stack support:

Gazebo (gz-sim8) — Gazebo Harmonic simulation out of the box
ros2_control — Hardware abstraction & controllers
MoveIt 2 — Motion planning
Nav2 — Autonomous navigation

No Docker. No VMs. Native macOS.

And the best part? These aren’t one-time snapshots — they stay in sync with upstream and will keep getting updated as the ecosystem evolves.

What’s next? I’ve been quietly collecting -Werror flag failures from Apple Clang across all three distros. Fixing them upstream should meaningfully improve code quality across the stack.

Want to try MoveIt 2 or TurtleBot4 tutorials on macOS? I’ve patched them for all available distros:

TurtleBot4 tutorials (Jazzy): https://lnkd.in/e2ZXMXBn
MoveIt 2 tutorials (Jazzy): https://lnkd.in/eWwNCT-G

Project Links:
Ros2_macos repo: https://lnkd.in/ehEtTSJz
Homebrew repo: https://lnkd.in/ek5zDAQB

[RobotDreams]

This has rViz2? I have been running ROS 2 in Fusion VMs on my 2018 MacMini forever and I think I would like to be running native on my Mac. (There is a certain “keeping it separate” feeling with my robot stuff in the VM and everything else native.)

I run a TurtleBot4-lite on Raspberry Pi 5 clone and spend hours with Jazzy rViz2 in my MacMini VM (4 processors 20GB allocated), so this sounds like a great fit.

Lyrical Luth still has unreleased packages that the TB4 relies on, but today I managed to clean build everything that does not have unreleased dependancies. Looking forward to your “ros2-lyrical”.