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ollama/app
Jeffrey Morgan fa6c0127e6 app: expose server's default context length to UI (#14037)
Parse the default_num_ctx from the server's "vram-based default context"
log line and expose it through the inference compute API. This eliminates
duplicate VRAM tier calculation logic in the frontend.

- Add InferenceInfo struct with Computes and DefaultContextLength
- Rename GetInferenceComputer to GetInferenceInfo
- Handle missing default context line gracefully (older servers)
- Add DefaultContextLength to InferenceComputeResponse
- Update Settings UI to use server's default, disable slider while loading
- Add disabled prop to Slider component (grays out + hides handle)
- Migrate existing users with context_length=4096 to 0 (auto mode)
2026-02-20 18:56:30 -08:00
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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