Install GraalVM with Homebrew

Homebrew is the preferred way to install anything on your Mac.

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brew install graalvm/tap/graalvm-ce-java17

Install GraalVM without Homebrew

Follow these 5 steps to get GraalVM installed on your Mac.

Step1:

Download the official binary: https://www.graalvm.org/downloads/

Unpack the archive into a folder.

Step2:

Move the folder into the JavaVirtualMachines directory:

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sudo mv graalvm-ce-java17-21.3.0 /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines

sudo is required because /Library is a system directory.

Step3:

Verify the installation using the java_home utility:

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/usr/libexec/java_home -V
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This now needs to be added to the `PATH`, but first let&#8217;s make sure we can reference the new location:

/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.17

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..should print out the newly created entry&#8217;s absolute directory path as above:

`/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/graalvm-ce-java17-21.3.0/Contents/Home`

Open you `~/.bash_profile` and add:

export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.17) export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

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### Step4:

Now to complete the installation, simply run the following:

gu install native-image

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This binary is located at `/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/graalvm-ce-<version>/Contents/Home/bin` if it&#8217;s not immediately available.

### Step5:

`native-image` will now be added to the path.