On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net> wrote: > Am 25.05.2010 um 17:36 schrieb Rob Oakes: > >> Dear LyX Developers, >> >> I just downloaded the latest LyX version via SVN onto Mac and compiled >> it using the Qt 4.7 beta (which seems to be much more stable, >> responsive, and better than Qt 4.6; at least on Snow Leopard). >> Everything compiled fine and I was able to launch LyX and look at >> several example documents. >> >> However, I ran into a strange problem. After configuring and compiling >> (Used CMake + Qt Creator), LyX simply skipped the initial configuration. >> It wasn't able to locate my LaTeX installation and the PATH prefix in >> the Paths dialog was simply empty. Even after filling in the PATH and >> trying to reconfigure, it wasn't able to find my LaTeX distribution. >> >> The alpha3, which I downloaded from the website works fine. It locates >> my LaTeX distribution and I am able to compile all of my test documents. >> >> Did I miss a configuration step someplace? > > I built the alpha3 .dmg using autotools. > Please, tell me what you did exactly to built LyX with CMake. > Until my last try some weeks ago I couldn't do that with Xcode. > You mentioned QtCreator... I haven't tried that until now.
Here's what I do from the command line: * set PATH and possibly QT4DIR appropriately (PATH pointing to where Qt bin files are) * cmake ../development/cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -Dquiet=1 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/Applications/LyX-devel.app/Contents/Resources Once cmake has been run, you can use ccmake to tweak various settings, including comipliing universal binaries. Note that cmake doesn't yet know what Mac-specific files (in .../development/MacOSX/) need to go where. So I start with a working /Applications/LyX-devel.app, and install files into it; then files in LyX-devel.app/Contents/Resources/bin need to be moved into LyX-devel.app/Contents/MacOS. BH
