TOra is reported to build on Mac OS X (10.4 Tiger and later). Only Cmake build method is tested. See README.CMAKE. Mac OS X bundle can be created with WANT_BUNDLE. See README.CMAKE. Notes on Oracle Instantclient: 1) you'll need the base package *and* SDK package as well. 2) You'll get errors running cmake with Instantclient: CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND. Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files: ORACLE_LIBRARY_CLNTSH linked by target "tora" in directory /opt/applications/tora/src ORACLE_LIBRARY_OCCI linked by target "tora" in directory /opt/applications/tora/src It's caused by Oracle - you'll need to fix Instantclient libraries yourself: ln -s /path/to/instantclient/libclntsh.dylib.10.2 /path/to/instantclient/libclntsh.dylib ln -s /path/to/instantclient/libocci.dylib.10.2 /path/to/instantclient/libocci.dylib 3) Keyboard shortcuts for Tool windows swicthing (AppleKey+number) can conflict with Mac's Open Spaces shortcuts in some cases.