brew install qemu unnecessarily brings in Python, a DNS server, two TLS libraries, ....
Instead:
$ brew install pkg-config pixman $ python3 -m venv qemu_install_venv $ source qemu_install_venv/bin/activate (qemu_install_venv) $ pip install ninja meson (qemu_install_venv) $ curl -LO https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/2.65/glib-2.65.2.tar.xz (qemu_install_venv) $ tar xf glib-2.65.2.tar.xz && cd glib-2.65.2 (qemu_install_venv) $ meson --prefix=/path/to/qemu/install -Dinternal_pcre=true _build (qemu_install_venv) $ ninja -C _build (qemu_install_venv) $ ninja -C _build install $ cd .. && curl -LO https://download.qemu.org/qemu-5.1.0.tar.xz $ tar xf qemu-5.1.0.tar.xz && cd qemu-5.1.0 $ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/qemu/install/lib/pkgconfig/ ./configure --enable-hvf --enable-cocoa --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --prefix=/path/to/qemu/install $ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/qemu/install/lib/pkgconfig/ make installAhh, much better:
$ otool -L /path/to/qemu/install/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 | grep -vE '^\W+(/usr/lib/|/System/Library/)' /path/to/qemu/install/bin/qemu-system-x86_64: /path/to/qemu/install/lib/libgio-2.0.0.dylib (compatibility version 6503.0.0, current version 6503.0.0) /path/to/qemu/install/lib/libgobject-2.0.0.dylib (compatibility version 6503.0.0, current version 6503.0.0) /path/to/qemu/install/lib/libglib-2.0.0.dylib (compatibility version 6503.0.0, current version 6503.0.0) /path/to/qemu/install/lib/libintl.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0) /path/to/homebrew/opt/pixman/lib/libpixman-1.0.dylib (compatibility version 41.0.0, current version 41.0.0) /path/to/qemu/install/lib/libgthread-2.0.0.dylib (compatibility version 6503.0.0, current version 6503.0.0) $