Apertium on Mac OS X (System)

These instructions will help you install Apertium on a system running Mac OS X. Use this page if you have root access to your system.

Requirements

The requirements are a full installation of XCode (http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/) and Macports (http://www.macports.org/install.php). Then install with Macports the following packages:

$ sudo port install autoconf automake expat flex \
gettext gperf help2man libiconv libtool \
libxml2 libxslt m4 ncurses ncursesw p5-locale-gettext \
pcre perl5.8  pkgconfig zlib gawk subversion

(Some of them are necessary just because Macports wants it)

Note: you can now install both apertium and lttoolbox from Macports (sudo port install lttoolbox apertium), although this won't give you the very newest version. Not recommended if you want to do development.

Downloading

$ svn co http://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/lttoolbox
$ svn co http://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/apertium

Then choose a language package and download it the same way, eg.

$ svn co http://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/apertium-es-ca

Compilation

For each package (i.e., within their directories lttoolbox, etc.), lttoolbox, apertium and a language package, do:

$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH
$ ./autogen.sh
$ make
$ sudo make install

Troubleshooting

syntax error near unexpected token

Problem

The configure script cannot find the PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro

checking for pcre_compile in -lpcrecpp... yes
./configure: line 19995: syntax error near unexpected token `APERTIUM,'
./configure: line 19995: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(APERTIUM, dnl'

Solution

Run:

$ aclocal -I /usr/local/share/aclocal
$ automake -a
$ autoconf
$ autoheader
$ automake -a
$ ./configure 

modes not generated

Problem

Everything works fine except the .mode files aren't being generated.

Solution

Try installing gawk

No package 'lttoolbox-3.2' found

Problem

No package 'lttoolbox-3.2' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Solution

do

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH

before autogen.sh

autogen/make "does not work"

Problem

some problem during autogen/make (what was the problem?)

Solution

$ aclocal -I /usr/local/share/aclocal
$ glibtoolize --force
$ aclocal -I /usr/local/share/aclocal
$ automake -a
$ autoconf
$ autoheader
$ automake -a
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/
$ make
$ sudo make install

endian_double_util.cc:38: error: ‘fread_unlocked’ was not declared in this scope

Just change the code to use fread instead of fread_unlocked (the latter is just faster).

Or, do this when compiling:

CPPFLAGS=" -Dfread_unlocked=fread " ./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install

See also

• Apertium on Mac OS X (Local) — for instructions on how to do a local install.