This script will download micro-manager and build just the DemoCamera. Can be used on apple silicon (with home-brew installed)

build_mm.sh

#!/bin/bash
# output to the current directory if no argument is given
if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
    OUTPUT=$(pwd)
else
    OUTPUT=$1
fi

packages=("autoconf" "automake" "libtool" "boost")

for package in "${packages[@]}"; do
  if brew ls --versions "$package" >/dev/null; then
    echo "Package '$package' is already installed."
  else
    echo "Package '$package' is not installed. Installing..."
    brew install "$package"
  fi
done

REPO=_mmrepo
rm -rf $REPO
git clone https://github.com/micro-manager/micro-manager.git $REPO
cd $REPO
git submodule update --init --recursive

# Update config.ac and makefile.am
# To just build the demo camera
#############################

our_makefile=$(cat <<EOF
AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I ../m4
SUBDIRS = \
    DemoCamera \
    Utilities
EOF
)
echo "$our_makefile" > mmCoreAndDevices/DeviceAdapters/Makefile.am

our_config_ac=$(cat <<"EOF"
AC_PREREQ([2.69])
AC_INIT([Micro-Manager], [2])
AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([../m4])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([DemoCamera/DemoCamera.cpp])
AC_CANONICAL_HOST
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign 1.11])
LT_PREREQ([2.2.6])
LT_INIT([disable-static])
AC_PROG_CC([cc gcc clang])
AC_PROG_CXX([c++ g++ clang++])
AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX([14], [noext])
micromanager_cpp_path=${ac_pwd}/..
micromanager_path=${micromanager_cpp_path}/..
MMDEVAPI_CXXFLAGS="-I${micromanager_cpp_path}/MMDevice ${BOOST_CPPFLAGS}"
AC_SUBST(MMDEVAPI_CXXFLAGS)
MMDEVAPI_LIBADD="${micromanager_cpp_path}/MMDevice/libMMDevice.la"
AC_SUBST(MMDEVAPI_LIBADD)
MMDEVAPI_LDFLAGS="-module -avoid-version -shrext \"\$(MMSUFFIX)\""
AC_SUBST(MMDEVAPI_LDFLAGS)
MM_INSTALL_DIRS
AC_MSG_CHECKING(library suffix)
AC_MSG_RESULT($MMSUFFIX)
AC_SUBST(MMSUFFIX)
AC_MSG_CHECKING(library prefix)
AC_MSG_RESULT($MMPREFIX)
AC_SUBST(MMPREFIX)
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([memset])
m4_define([device_adapter_dirs], [m4_strip([
    DemoCamera
    Utilities
])])
AC_CONFIG_FILES(Makefile m4_map_args_w(device_adapter_dirs, [], [/Makefile], [ ]))
AC_OUTPUT
EOF
)
echo "$our_config_ac" > mmCoreAndDevices/DeviceAdapters/configure.ac

##################

export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/lib/"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/include/"

./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix="$(pwd)"

make
make install

# grab the demo config
cp bindist/any-platform/MMConfig_demo.cfg lib/micro-manager

cd ..
mv $REPO/lib/micro-manager $OUTPUT
rm -rf $REPO