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

(Note: it is technically possible to install apertium and lttoolbox from Macports, but the version there is very out of date.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.)

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