On Nov 14, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Stephan Witt wrote:
> Am 14.11.2010 um 09:16 schrieb Abdel Younes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to use cmake on MacOS (10.6). I didn't on purpose read the Mac
>> INSTALL/README in order to judge how easy it is to compile LyX under MacOS.
>> So far, I am pleased. big kudoes to Peter/Kornel/Stefan/Bennett!
>
> Fine. Thanks for the kudos.
Deserved. And sorry for misspelling your first name.
>
>> Here is what I did:
>>
>> 1) install the latest Xcode 3.something, not so much for Xcode but because
>> it brings in gcc and MacOS development libraries.
>
> One question here: before installing Xcode, did you have the svn command line
> tool, already? Or comes it with Xcode only?
> Perhaps you have tested this and can remember?
Yes, it came with XCode. It was not there before.
>
>> 2) install Qt-4.7 from Nokia
>> 3) install cmake from cmake web site
>
> cmake is in macports too. maybe it's good enough and easier to install - in
> terms of key strokes...
>
>> 4) install MacPorts
>> 5) update MacPorts: sudo port -v selfupdate
>> 6) install gmake:sudo port -v selfupdate
>
> gmake makes a difference?
I don't know but XCode didn't bring in make and MacPorts only offered GNU make
("sudo install gmake")
>
>> 7) mkdir devel/lyx
>> 8) svn co svn svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk
>> 9) mkdir trunk/build
>> 10) cd trunk/build
>> 11) cmake ../development/cmake/
>> 12) make
>> 13) ./bin/LyX2.0 -sysdir ../lib
>>
>> And it works!!!! I am able to load all help documents. By the way what is
>> the font problem I should be having with Qt-4.7? The rendering seems quite
>> good on the UserGuide, AFAICS.
>
> I can show you two screenshots to illustrate it (with Qt4.6.3), as fas as I
> understand it.
> The first one I made with preconfigured fonts. (Times, Helvetica, Courier)
>
> <Bildschirmfoto 2010-11-14 um 12.05.45.png>
>
> The second one with modified screen fonts. (Georgia, Geneva, Courier New)
>
> <Bildschirmfoto 2010-11-14 um 12.06.29.png>
>
> Two problems are "fixed" now:
> * the display of a-umlaut with Times.
> * the fi ligature with monospaced Courier. Note the cursor position and the
> length of the misspelled marker line.
OK thanks, I'll have a look.
>
>> Now I am going to install Latex (any recommendation here?)
>
> MacTeX is the one I've installed here. I did not test any other.
I installed that now; seems to work. But there is no update program, is there?
I mean so that we are not forced to download the 1.6Gb package when you want to
upgrade...
Abdel.
