-Building LyX/Mac-1.4.0
+Building LyX/Mac-1.5
Ronald Florence <ron@18james.com>
-Modified by Bennett Helm <bennett.helm@fandm.edu>
+Modified by Bennett Helm <bennett.helm@fandm.edu> and by Anders
+Ekberg <anek@mac.com>.
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. If you are using the
-tcsh shell, change the "export VAR=value" statements to
-"setenv VAR value".
+here builds LyX linked with a static Qt library.
PREREQUISITES
-1. Qt/Mac Free Edition, version 3.3. This library is GPL-licensed
+1. Qt/Mac Free Edition, version 4. This library is GPL-licensed
and can be downloaded from
<http://www.trolltech.com/download/qt/mac.html>. You will need to
compile it yourself (as described below).
-2. automake, version 1.9 or higher. The easiest way to get this is
-to use FinkCommander, which can be downloaded from
-<http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net/>.
+2. automake, version 1.5 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 3.3 or higher. (You
+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 3.3, for example, by entering
-"sudo gcc_select 3.3".)
+can change your gcc version to version 4.0, for example, by entering
+"sudo gcc_select 4.0".)
-1. Decompress Qt/Mac in a convenient directory, cd to the top of the
+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:
- export QTDIR=`pwd`
- ./configure -static -no-exceptions -lresolv [for OS X 10.2, use "./configure -static -no-exceptions"]
+ ./configure -static -no-exceptions -nomake examples -nomake tools -prefix /path/to/QT4
make
- rm lib/libqt.la
+ 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. The default settings
-assume that this bundle has been moved to /Applications and is named
-LyX.app. You can rename it or move it somewhere else, but make sure
-you read the note in step 3.
+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. Using the same terminal session you used to build the Qt library,
-cd to the top of the LyX source hierarchy, and:
+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 --with-frontend=qt --without-x --with-included-gettext --enable-optimization=-Os --disable-concept-checks
-
-[Note: If you have moved or renamed the LyX/Mac application bundle
-skeleton, you will need to add "--prefix=/path/to/LyX.app"
-(substituting the appropriate path, of course) to this ./configure
-line. (If you do not specify anything for --prefix, the default is
---prefix=/Applications/LyX.app.)]
-
+ ./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
+ 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
individual systems, this information is conveyed as is with no
warranty of any kind.
-For more information on LyX/Mac, see <http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac>.
+For more information on LyX/Mac, see <http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac>.