[texworks] Compiling TeXworks on MacOSX

[Jonathan Kew]

On 27 Sep 2009, at 12:10, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Stefan Löffler  
> <st.loeffler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> version, but another possible one is the prefix variable. If your  
>> Qt 4.5
>> files are not saved in places like /Library/Frameworks/ 
>> QtCore.framework,
>> than the prefix lines have to be adjusted appropriately.
>
> Thank you for pointing out to wiki. I followed instructions, including
> "telling pkg-config where look for Qt things" but poppler recognizes
> Qt4 now but compiles with with an error
>
> /Library/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Headers/qglobal.h:311:6: warning:
> #warning "Support for this version of Mac OS X is still preliminary"
> ArthurOutputDev.cc:586:2: warning: #warning FIX THIS
> In file included from /Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Headers/ 
> qmatrix.h:46,
>                 from
> /Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Headers/qtransform.h:44,
>                 from /Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Headers/ 
> qimage.h:45,
>                 from /Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Headers/ 
> qpixmap.h:49,
>                 from /Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Headers/ 
> qpainter.h:48,
>                 from /Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Headers/ 
> QPainter:1,
>                 from ArthurOutputDev.h:36,
>                 from ArthurOutputDev.cc:46:
> /Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Headers/qregion.h: In member
> function 'OpaqueRgnHandle* QRegion::handle(bool) const':
> /Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Headers/qregion.h:158: error:
> 'toQDRgn' was not declared in this scope
> make[3]: *** [ArthurOutputDev.lo] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> Well, probably I need to wait until Qt4.5 provides better support for
> MacOS 10.6 or may be it will come with Qt4.6

You could try building with the 10.5 SDK, that might have a better  
chance of success.

(I haven't moved my main development work over to 10.6 yet, so don't  
have experience of trying to compile it there.)

JK