lyx_mirror/INSTALL.MacOSX

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>.

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
<http://www.trolltech.com/download/qt/mac.html>. You will need to 
compile it yourself (as described below).

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 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 -framework Cocoa"
     ./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 <http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac>.