Building LyX/Mac-1.5 Ronald Florence Modified by Bennett Helm and by Anders Ekberg . LyX/Mac is built from the LyX source, the GPL-licensed Trolltech Qt/Mac library, and a custom application bundle. You will need the MacOSX development tools. The procedure described here builds LyX linked with a static Qt library. PREREQUISITES 1. Qt/Mac Free Edition, version 4. This library is GPL-licensed and can be downloaded from . You will need to compile it yourself (as described below). 2. automake, version 1.9 or higher (check with automake --version). Probably the easiest way to get this is to use DarwinPorts (from http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/getdp/) and install automake using sudo port install automake 3. gettext version >= 0.12 (check with gettext --version) If the installed version is insufficient the easiest way to obtain a later version is to get DarwinPorts (from http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/getdp/) and install gettext using sudo port install gettext BUILD INSTRUCTIONS Note that building LyX/Mac requires gcc version 4.0 or higher. (You can check your version by entering "gcc -v" in the Terminal; you can change your gcc version to version 4.0, for example, by entering "sudo gcc_select 4.0".) 1. Create a directory where you want to install QT4. In the following, the full path to this directory is called /path/to/QT4 Decompress Qt/Mac in a convenient directory, cd to the top of the Qt source hierarcy, and: ./configure -static -no-exceptions -nomake examples -nomake tools -prefix /path/to/QT4 make make install cd /path/to/QT4/lib rm *.la If you don't prescribe -nomake examples -nomake tools in the configuration you need to make sure you have some 20+ GB of free hard disk space. Else the installation is about 1GB. 2. The LyX/Mac application bundle skeleton (LyX.app) can be found in the LyX source hierarchy at development/MacOSX. Copy this bundle to a directory. In the following, the full path to this directory is called /path/to/LyX.app. (The default settings assume that this path is /Applications/LyX.app.) 3. cd to the top of the LyX source hierarchy, and: export LDFLAGS="-framework Carbon -framework OpenGL -framework AGL -framework QuickTime -lz" ./autogen.sh ./configure --prefix=/path/to/LyX.app --disable-concept-checks --with-version-suffix=-1.5 --with-qt4-dir=/path/to/QT4 --enable-optimization=-Os --without-x --with-included-gettext --with-frontend=qt4 --disable-stdlib-debug make make install-strip (Note that the --with-version-suffix=-1.5 option will result in LyX's user's directory being located at ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5.) The information on this page is believed to be accurate, has been used successfully on many systems and sites, and has benefited from the comments and suggestions of many users. Due to the variations in individual systems, this information is conveyed as is with no warranty of any kind. For more information on LyX/Mac, see .