Prerequisites for Mac OS X

This page shows how to install the standard dependencies of apertium (and related packages) on Mac OS X.

First of all, you need:

• a full installation of XCode (http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/) including the Command Line Tools

  (http://railsapps.github.io/xcode-command-line-tools.html is nice guide if you get stuck here)

• Macports (http://www.macports.org/install.php)

Then install the apertium dependencies with Macports like this:

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

Once you've installed these packages, continue to Minimal installation from SVN

(Note: it is technically possible to install apertium and lttoolbox from Macports, but the version there is very out of date. It is not recommended if you want to do development.)

See also

• Apertium on Mac OS X – more installation and troubleshooting help specific to Mac OS X.