Lyx

Before you start digging into LyX (Release / Dev) face all requirements first
- teTeX TeX base library
- QT GUI Toolkit
- gettext translation Library
- imagemagick image conversion tool
- aspell spell checking library incl. german dictionary

v1.6.2

./configure --prefix=/opt/lyx-1.6 --with-qt4-dir=/opt/qt-4.5 --enable-static=yes --enable-shared=no

Upgrade to 1.6.4 because of a nasty bug crashing lyx on documents with embedded images.

v1.5.x

Starting with this version - lyx has a build in session management of its own. So no need to maintain my own patches any more.
Dont be disappointed, after the first start, all tex-Settings are greyed out. No problem. Add the following to the preferences PATH-PREFIX.

/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/tex/bin:/opt/imagemagick/bin:/opt/aspell/bin

Select in the TOOLS Menu RECONFIGURE and restart LyX.

Spellchecker error ngerman not found...

/opt/aspell/lib/aspell-0.60 ahammer$ cp swiss.alias ngerman.alias

v1.4.x

A new link to LyX.app and alternative tar-balls for cvs access ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/devel/

export LDFLAGS="-framework Carbon -framework OpenGL -framework AGL -framework QuickTime -lz"

export CFLAGS="-Os"

export CXXFLAGS="-Os"

export IMG=/opt/imagemagick-6.2.5

export QTDIR=/opt/qt-3.3.5

export GETTEXT=/opt/gettext-0.14.5

export GS=/opt/gs-8.5.3

export ASPELL=/opt/aspell-0.60



export PATH=$PATH:$QTDIR/bin:$GETTEXT/bin:$IMG/bin:$GS/bin:$ASPELL/bin

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH



./autogen.sh

./configure --with-frontend=qt --without-x --with-included-gettext --with-aspell 

--with-extra-lib=$ASPELL/lib --with-extra-inc=$ASPELL/include --with-qt-dir=$QTDIR

--with-qt-include=$QTDIR/include --with-qt-libraries=$QTDIR/lib --enable-optimization=-0s

--disable-concept-checks

Dont be disappointed, after the first start, all tex-Settings are greyed out. No problem. Add the following to the preferences PATH-PREFIX.

/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/tex/bin:/opt/imagemagick/bin:/opt/aspell/bin

Select in the TOOLS Menu RECONFIGURE and restart LyX.

The following 4 patches implement a simple Restore last windows size and position feature
lyx_gui.diff lyxfunc.diff lyxrc_C.diff lyxrc_h.diff

v1.3.x / CVS

LyX is a TeX based document processor. First you need the Application Bundle lyx-mac-skeleton.

Unpack it in /Applications and change the references from "1.3.3" to "1.4.0" in /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Info.plist to reflect the current version number.

export LDFLAGS="-framework Carbon -framework OpenGL -framework AGL -framework QuickTime -lz"



export IMG=/opt/imagemagick-6.2.1

export QTDIR=/Data/Source/qt-3.3.4

export GETTEXT=/opt/gettext-0.14.4

export GS=/opt/gs-8.5.1

export ASPELL=/opt/aspell-0.60



export PATH=$PATH:$QTDIR/bin:$GETTEXT/bin:$IMG/bin:$GS/bin:$ASPELL/bin

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH



./configure --with-qt-dir=$QTDIR --with-qt-include=$QTDIR/include --with-qt-libraries=$QTDIR/lib

  --with-frontend=qt --without-x --datadir=/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources 

  --bindir=/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS   

  --mandir=/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/man --enable-maintainer-mode 

  --with-included-gettext --enable-optimization=-Os



make

make install

strip /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOs/lyx

rm /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/LyX/images/lyx.xpm

At them moment, better optimizing the code leeds to an instable installation.
And the removal of the XPM icons is needed for a proper MacOsX Icon.

To check a preconfigured binary use

lyx -version

Using the LANG / LANGUAGE environment settings you can choose the GUI language. Create $HOME/.MacOSX/environment.plist with the following content.
You have to try it de_CH, de_CH.ISO-8859-1 odr de_CH.UTF-8 is right for your system.

Unfortunately some entries are missing. So add the following lines to the file /Application/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/locale/locale.alias

de              de_DE.ISO-8859-1

de_DE           de_DE.ISO-8859-1

de_CH           de_CH.ISO-8859-1