Install YouCompleteMe on Mac OS X

InstructionsForYCM-Mac.md

Below are the instructions for installing YouCompleteMe on Mac OS X

Prerequisites

• brew
• pathogen or vundle,
• vim (>= 7.3.584)

Instructions

1. brew install cmake
2. cd ~/.vim/bundle
3. git clone https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe.git
4. mkdir YouCompleteMe/ycmbuild
5. cd YouCompleteMe/ycmbuild
6. cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" . ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/cpp/
7. make ycm_core
8. Restart Vim
9. Enjoy

Hello, I had the following error:

CMake Error: The source directory "~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd/cpp" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.

To solve it:

git submodule update --init --recursive

it's doesn't work!

Hello,
Followed the installation through, no errors.
Should it just start suggesting completions when typing on vim?
I'm looking for autocompletion in bash scripts, any tricks to enable it?
Cheers.

These instructions are incorrect and incomplete. Please follow the official ones and if they don't work for you, ask for help on the Gitter room.

you need 3.5,3.6 between 3 and 4.
3.5 cd ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe
3.6 git submodule update --init --recursive

This worked

I found the following two lines works:

brew install cmake
# Then, find where YouCompleteMe is stored, and simply run the following from the /.../YouCompleteMe directory
./install.py

Hello, I had the following error:

CMake Error: The source directory "~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd/cpp" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.

To solve it:
git submodule update --init --recursive

it's doesn't work!

It works for me. I think you might pay attention to the dictionary. You might already in the YouCompleteMe, so it will have this error.

I had to use
6. cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" . ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd/cpp/
but otherwise this worked for me.

This works for me too!

I had to use
6. cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" . ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/third_party/ycmd/cpp/
but otherwise this worked for me.

This works for me.

This is not working on Mac M1 11.6 (also with tabnine/YouCompleteMe). Finally below command worked.
python3 install.py --cmake-path=/opt/homebrew/bin/cmake --system-libclang --all

This is not working on Mac M1 11.6 (also with tabnine/YouCompleteMe). Finally below command worked. python3 install.py --cmake-path=/opt/homebrew/bin/cmake --system-libclang --all

thank you for posting this! this totally makes it work on m1!

This is not working on Mac M1 11.6 (also with tabnine/YouCompleteMe). Finally below command worked.
python3 install.py --cmake-path=/opt/homebrew/bin/cmake --system-libclang --all

M1 is now supported by ycm. See the official instructions in the README.

The above instructions are incorrect and outdated.