# Trouble Building Metricbeat Cont

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-building-metricbeat-cont/285638>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** docker, beats-development, metricbeat\
**Created:** [September 30, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-building-metricbeat-cont/285638 "2021-09-30T23:36:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trouble-building-metricbeat-cont/285638/2 "2021-09-30T23:42:15Z")

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Please don't create multiple topics on the same question, it makes it harder for people to help you 🙂

> [@Building metricbeat from source on Mac with no X-Code](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/building-metricbeat-from-source-on-mac-with-no-x-code/285532):
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> Hello, I am trying to build the current master branch metricbeat image from source code on my mac (macOS Catalina V10.15.7). I have been following the developer guides. Everything installed and it goes great when I run 'mage package' from the beats/metricbeat Makefile ... all the way up until the Preference Pane portion. I cannot install XCode on my machine as I do not have sudo privilege. So the 'Building MacOS Preference Pane' fails as the toold 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode. I also do not wa…

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