On Dec 2, 2005, at 9:25 AM, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
once again i am being forced to hand over my almost perfect
document to the
boss, who wants to edit it in word. that implies a goodbye to the
bibtex
references, the cross references, and my all of my good moods.
now i plan to steal his laptop (ibook running max os x) and compile
lyx on
it in a hit-and-run mission.
if this is going to succeed - the compilation must be absolutely
smooth!!!
so, how to go about this?
requirements:
1) lyx-1.3.6
2) change-bars patch
3) some flavor of TeX
Download the source, and follow the instructions in INSTALL.MacOSX.
As the instructions indicate, you'll need to download and compile Qt
first; sources for that can be found here: <ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/
qt/source/qt-mac-free-3.3.5.tar.gz>. (Note that you do not want Qt
version 4; 3.3.5 is the latest that works with LyX.)
I don't have experience with the change-bars patch, so I have nothing
to say here.
For TeX, I'd recommend i-Installer; <http://ii2.sourceforge.net/tex-
index.html> has good information on it (scroll about 1/3 of the way
down the page for the section on TeX i-Packages). Minimally install
the basic TeX package, Ghostscript 8, and ImageMagick. (TeX,
Ghostscript, plus the i-Installer application are bundled here:
<ftp://ftp.tug.org/mirror/ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/volumes/tex/
TeX-fat.dmg>.)
Note that compilation will take hours -- especially Qt. However, you
don't need to compile the Qt tutorial or examples. (I believe you can
simply delete those directories -- or, better, move them aside --
before compiling; you'll get an error that stops compilation, but all
you need for LyX will have been built by then.)
A final note: I have not tried compiling LyX-1.3.6 with gcc-4.0, and
I don't know whether you'd encounter any problems. (I do have
problems -- still unresolved -- compiling the still-being-developed
lyx-1.3.7 with gcc-4.0.) To be sure things work the first time, make
sure you use gcc-3.3 when compiling both Qt and LyX. ("gcc -v" in the
terminal will tell you the version; if it's anything but gcc-3.3, you
can change it by entering "sudo gcc_select 3.3" followed, when
prompted, by your admin password.)
Bennett
