Compiling AbiWord on Mac
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You can compile AbiWord on Mac with the Cocoa front-end. If you want the X11/Gtk version, check the regular UNIX build, but you are on your own. It is not supported.
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Requirements
Firstly, download and install MacPorts (http://www.macports.org) that will be used to build the dependencies, that are:
- cairo +quartz+no_x11
- pango +quartz+no_x11
- fribidi
- libgsf +no_gnome
- redland
- wv +no_x11
- enchant
- boost
[outdated] AbiMacSDK
AbiMacSDK is a set of tools to build all at once the dependencies needed by AbiWord to build. If you use that, you likely don't need MacPort.
[outdated] Build system
It use the same autotools based build system as used for the Gtk build on Linux. This is the only supported way. There is an XCode project that is NOT suited for building the binaries (see below).
Configure
Once you have checkout the code, you can configure it.
Here is what I use
./configure --enable-debug --with-darwinports --enable-maintainer-mode --disable-static --enable-plugins --enable-shave
Use --enable-debug only for developement. Deployment builds must not.
Making the bundle
cd src DESTDIR=`pwd` make install
You now have AbiWord.app in the same directory. The binary is not portable as it require the same libraries installed from the ports.
If all you want is test the latest binary change, do:
DESTDIR=`pwd` make install-data-am
This is way faster.
You must perform this before running AbiWord as lot of things are expected to be found within the bundle.
[outdated] Universal binary
Making a universal binary isn't supported yet.
[outdated] XCode
There is an Xcode project for use on MacOS X 10.4. It does only build the application and relies on having the AbiMacSDK installed and the regular tree configure.
You can check it out from svn: http://svn.abisource.com/abimacsdk/trunk/abixcode/
[outdated] Distributable image
For now we can not automatically make a self contained application bundle.
