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ollama/app
Daniel Hiltgen 56c735d871 runner: Remove CGO engines, use llama-server exclusively for GGML models
Remove the vendored GGML and llama.cpp backend, CGO runner, Go model
implementations, and sample.  llama-server (built from upstream llama.cpp via
FetchContent) is now the sole inference engine for GGUF-based models.
(Safetensor based models continue to run on the new MLX engine.)  This allows
us to more rapidly pick up new capabilities and fixes from llama.cpp as they
come out.

On windows this now requires recent AMD driver versions to support ROCm v7 as
llama.cpp currently does not support building against v6.
2026-04-20 08:44:02 -07:00
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Ollama for macOS and Windows

Download

Development

Desktop App

go generate ./... &&
go run ./cmd/app

UI Development

Setup

Install required tools:

go install github.com/tkrajina/typescriptify-golang-structs/tscriptify@latest

Develop UI (Development Mode)

  1. Start the React development server (with hot-reload):
cd ui/app
npm install
npm run dev
  1. In a separate terminal, run the Ollama app with the -dev flag:
go generate ./... &&
OLLAMA_DEBUG=1 go run ./cmd/app -dev

The -dev flag enables:

Build

Windows

Dependencies - either build a local copy of ollama, or use a github release

# Local dependencies
.\scripts\deps_local.ps1

# Release dependencies
.\scripts\deps_release.ps1 0.6.8

Build

.\scripts\build_windows.ps1

macOS

CI builds with Xcode 14.1 for OS compatibility prior to v13. If you want to manually build v11+ support, you can download the older Xcode here, extract, then mv ./Xcode.app /Applications/Xcode_14.1.0.app then activate with:

export CGO_CFLAGS="-O3 -mmacosx-version-min=12.0"
export CGO_CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mmacosx-version-min=12.0"
export CGO_LDFLAGS="-mmacosx-version-min=12.0"
export SDKROOT=/Applications/Xcode_14.1.0.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk
export DEVELOPER_DIR=/Applications/Xcode_14.1.0.app/Contents/Developer

Dependencies - either build a local copy of Ollama, or use a GitHub release:

# Local dependencies
./scripts/deps_local.sh

# Release dependencies
./scripts/deps_release.sh 0.6.8

Build

./scripts/build_darwin.sh