Installing from SVN on Mac OS X

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Introduction

This document outlines the build process for Scribus 1.3.5 or higher from CVS/SVN. This is an official Scribus Team document and as such is the currently support build preference on OSX/Aqua and is also subject to a different licence to the rest of the wiki. This does not currently outline the processs for packaging and bundling Scribus (yet).

What we use

• darwinports
• Qt from Trolltech
• XCode from Apple
• Scribus CVS/SVN

Building and Installing

Steps to build and install Scribus 1.3.5 on OSX/Aqua(tested on Intel only)

• Install XCode (available on the OSX CDs or from the Apple developer site)
• Install darwinports (downloadable from darwinports.com)
• Install Qt4 for OSX (downloadable from www.trolltech.com)
• Install a few ports from darwinports
  • Install CMake (sudo port install cmake)
  • Install freetype2 (sudo port install freetype). The one included with OSX 10.4.9 is not as good as available from darwinports.
  • Install lcms (sudo port install lcms). This will also install jpeg, zlib, tiff
  • Install cairo (sudo port install cairo). this will install fontconfig too.
  • You may need to install libpng/libmng/libtool/autoconf/automake, this needs checking on a clean install.
  • Optionally (recommended) install ghostscript (sudo port install ghostscript)
• Make a directory where you want to download to (eg, in Terminal, mkdir -p ~/scribus/135)
• Change to this directory (cd ~/scribus/135)
• Check out Scribus from cvs (in the future SVN)
  • export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs:@scribus.info:/cvs
  • cvs -z3 co -r Version135x Scribus
• Make a build directory (mkdir builddir)
• Change to the build directory (cd builddir)
• Run the cmake command: cmake -DBUILD_OSX_BUNDLE=1 -DWANT_CAIRO=1 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/Users/username/Applications/Scribus.App/Contents/ ../Scribus/
• make
• make install

Finish

Now you can run Scribus 1.3.5+ from OSX if all has gone well.