To build VBoxWrapper for Macintosh: First build the BOINC libraries: cd [path]/mac_build source BuildMacBOINC.sh -lib For more details, see the instructions in that script's comments or at: [path]/mac_build/HowToBuildBOINC_XCode.rtf After building the libraries, there are two ways to build VBoxWrapper for Macintosh: [1] Run the Xcode project at: [path]/samples/vboxwrapper/vboxwrapper.xcodeproj [2] Run the BuildMacVboxWrapper.sh script in this vboxwrapper directory (which will invoke the makefile Makefile_mac): cd [path]/samples/vboxwrapper/ sh BuildMacVboxWrapper.sh