Building LyX/Mac-1.5
Ronald Florence <ron@18james.com>
-Modified by Bennett Helm <bennett.helm@fandm.edu> and by Anders
-Ekberg <anek@mac.com>.
+Modified by Bennett Helm <bennett.helm@fandm.edu>, Anders
+Ekberg <anek@mac.com> and Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgouttes@lyx.org>.
LyX/Mac is built from the LyX source, the GPL-licensed Trolltech
Qt/Mac library, and a custom application bundle.
1. Qt/Mac Opensource Edition, version 4. This library is GPL-
licensed and can be downloaded from
-<http://www.trolltech.com/download/qt/mac.html>. To compile it,
+<http://trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/mac/>. To compile it,
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
cd /path/to/QT4/lib
rm *.la
-2. [Needed only for developmental builds:] automake, version 1.5
+2. [Needed only for developmental builds:] automake, version 1.10
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
+way to get this is to use MacPorts (from http://www.macports.org/)
+and install automake using
sudo port install automake
3. [Needed only for developmental builds:] gettext version >= 0.12
(check with gettext --version). If the installed version is
insufficient the easiest way to obtain a later version is to use
-DarwinPorts (from http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/getdp/) and
-install gettext using:
+MacPorts (from http://www.macports.org/) and install gettext
+using:
sudo port install gettext
+4. [Useful to simplify detection of Qt:] pkg-config >= 0.9.0. Again,
+the simplest way is through MacPorts:
+
+ sudo port install pkgconfig
+
BUILD INSTRUCTIONS
(a) Official Releases
-cd to the top of the LyX source hierarchy, and enter:
+If you did not install pkg-config, first set the LDFLAGS variable:
+
+ export LDFLAGS="-framework Carbon -framework OpenGL -framework AGL -framework QuickTime -framework Cocoa"
- export LDFLAGS="-framework Carbon -framework OpenGL -framework AGL -framework QuickTime -lz -framework Cocoa"
- ./configure --prefix=/path/to/LyX.app --with-version-suffix=-1.5 --without-x --with-frontend=qt4 --with-qt4-dir=/path/to/QT4 --with-included-gettext --enable-optimization=-Os
+Then, cd to the top of the LyX source hierarchy, and enter:
+
+ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/LyX.app --with-version-suffix=-1.6 --without-x --with-qt4-dir=/path/to/QT4 --with-included-gettext --enable-optimization=-Os
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.)
+(Note that the --with-version-suffix=-1.6 option will result in LyX's
+user's directory being located at ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6)
(b) Developmental Versions (svn checkouts)
Building LyX from developmental sources requires a few more steps.
Instead of the instructions above, do the following:
-cd to the top of the LyX source hierarchy, and enter:
+If you did not install pkg-config, first set the LDFLAGS variable:
+
+ export LDFLAGS="-framework Carbon -framework OpenGL -framework AGL -framework QuickTime -framework Cocoa"
+
+Then, cd to the top of the LyX source hierarchy, and enter:
- export LDFLAGS="-framework Carbon -framework OpenGL -framework AGL -framework QuickTime -lz -framework Cocoa"
./autogen.sh
- ./configure --prefix=/path/to/LyX.app --with-version-suffix=-1.5 --without-x --with-frontend=qt4 --with-qt4-dir=/path/to/QT4 --with-included-gettext --enable-optimization=-Os --disable-stdlib-debug --disable-concept-checks
+ ./configure --prefix=/path/to/LyX.app --with-version-suffix=-1.6 --without-x --with-qt4-dir=/path/to/QT4 --with-included-gettext --enable-optimization=-Os
make
make install-strip
+Note that by default svn versions use some extra debugging code that
+somewhat slows LyX down. If it is a real problem, you can pass the
+option --disable-stdlib-debug to configure.
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