I've now successfully installed Lyx-1.2.1 on MacOS 10.2 and used it long enough to be comfortable with it. I thought other potential users, and the LyX development team, might be interested in my experience. It is not quite as shrink-wrapped as building on Solaris.
Prerequisites: Follow the directions at http://www.la.utexas.edu/~tnishino/osx_lyx/ to install the developer tools, Xdarwin, OroborOSX, fink, and teTeX. This takes a bit of fiddling, as fink isn't quite ready with MacOS 10.2. Make sure fink has installed the newest xforms library (sudo fink install xforms). LyX: Fink will install LyX for you, but I chose to build and install from source. You need to modify .../boost/boost/detail/limits.hpp to include the following: #ifndef __APPLE__ #include <whcars> #endif This would be a useful developer addition to the source code. You also need to declare two environment variables before running make: CPPFLAGS = -no-cpp-precomp CXX = g++2 The second makes gcc-3.1 emulate gcc-2.95.2. Configuration: I found that the xdvi in teTeX would not correctly build the needed fonts, until I created a wrapper /sw/bin/xdvi.lyx: #!/bin/sh TEXMF=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf export TEXMF /sw/bin/xdvi "$@" and configured LyX to use xdvi.lyx as the dvi viewer. You can configure the PDF viewer as "open -a Preview" or use Acrobat. If you get MacGhostViewX, you can configure the Postscript viewer as "open -a MacGhostViewX". I found a networked Postscript printer easy to configure in LyX. There are Mac DVI viewers that could be substituted for xdvi. After many years on Sparc Solaris boxes, I find MacOS 10.2 is a nice platform for LyX. PowerMacs are fast, the option-key functions as a native Mac compose key for foreign and special characters, and the Mac display and fonts are easy on the eyes. I hope these notes are useful. Ronald Florence www.18james.com
