diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 38320ad4f0b..4211b302eb1 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@ Scripts/developer_scripts/check_svn_keywords text eol=lf
Scripts/developer_scripts/create_cgal_test text eol=lf
Scripts/developer_scripts/create_cgal_test_with_cmake text eol=lf
Scripts/developer_scripts/create_internal_release text eol=lf
-Scripts/developer_scripts/create_macosx_installer text eol=lf
Scripts/developer_scripts/create_new_release text eol=lf
Scripts/developer_scripts/detect_files_with_mixed_eol_styles text eol=lf
Scripts/developer_scripts/detect_packages_licenses text eol=lf
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 90f003227c6..b6fe952fd56 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1058,7 +1058,7 @@ cmake_install.cmake
*~
.#*
-# MacOS file https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.DS_Store
+# macOS file https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.DS_Store
.DS_Store
# Binaries:
diff --git a/Documentation/doc/Documentation/Third_party.txt b/Documentation/doc/Documentation/Third_party.txt
index 0a47a9f2dd6..f94711ba8d2 100644
--- a/Documentation/doc/Documentation/Third_party.txt
+++ b/Documentation/doc/Documentation/Third_party.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ supporting C++17 or later.
| | `Clang` \cgalFootnote{\cgalFootnoteCode{https://clang.llvm.org/}} compiler version 15.0.7 |
| \ms Windows | \gnu `g++` 11.4.0 or later\cgalFootnote{\cgalFootnoteCode{https://gcc.gnu.org/}} |
| | \ms Visual `C++` 15.9, 16.10, 17.0 (\visualstudio 2017, 2019, and 2022)\cgalFootnote{\cgalFootnoteCode{https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/}} |
-| MacOS X | \gnu `g++` 11.4.0 or later\cgalFootnote{\cgalFootnoteCode{https://gcc.gnu.org/}} |
+| macOS | \gnu `g++` 11.4.0 or later\cgalFootnote{\cgalFootnoteCode{https://gcc.gnu.org/}} |
| | Apple `Clang` compiler versions 10.0.1, 12.0.5, and 15.0.0 |
diff --git a/Installation/cmake/modules/FindCORE.cmake b/Installation/cmake/modules/FindCORE.cmake
index 6effa1d5e52..adb2ad05f15 100644
--- a/Installation/cmake/modules/FindCORE.cmake
+++ b/Installation/cmake/modules/FindCORE.cmake
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
# CORE_INCLUDE_DIR - the CORE include directory
# CORE_LIBRARIES - Libraries needed to use CORE
-# TODO: support Windows and MacOSX
-
# CORE needs GMP
include(FindPackageHandleStandardArgs)
@@ -17,7 +15,7 @@ if(GMP_FOUND)
find_path(CORE_INCLUDE_DIR NAMES CORE.h DOC "The directory containing the CORE include files")
find_library(CORE_LIBRARIES NAMES core++ DOC "Path to the core++ library")
-
+
get_filename_component(CORE_LIBRARIES_DIR ${CORE_LIBRARIES} PATH)
FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS(CORE "DEFAULT_MSG" CORE_LIBRARIES CORE_INCLUDE_DIR )
diff --git a/Installation/cmake/modules/FindGMP.cmake b/Installation/cmake/modules/FindGMP.cmake
index f452c0287f7..38108f3420a 100644
--- a/Installation/cmake/modules/FindGMP.cmake
+++ b/Installation/cmake/modules/FindGMP.cmake
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
# GMP_LIBRARIES_DIR - directory where the GMP libraries are located
# GMP_LIBRARIES - Link these to use GMP
-# TODO: support MacOSX
-
include(FindPackageHandleStandardArgs)
include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/CGAL_GeneratorSpecificSettings.cmake)
diff --git a/Installation/cmake/modules/FindGMPXX.cmake b/Installation/cmake/modules/FindGMPXX.cmake
index 277e4b19ef1..ce05fd70346 100644
--- a/Installation/cmake/modules/FindGMPXX.cmake
+++ b/Installation/cmake/modules/FindGMPXX.cmake
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
# GMPXX_INCLUDE_DIR - the GMPXX include directory
# GMPXX_LIBRARIES - Libraries needed to use GMPXX
-# TODO: support Windows and MacOSX
-
# GMPXX needs GMP
find_package( GMP QUIET )
diff --git a/Installation/cmake/modules/FindMPFR.cmake b/Installation/cmake/modules/FindMPFR.cmake
index 4d1bc43553d..b0507120ce0 100644
--- a/Installation/cmake/modules/FindMPFR.cmake
+++ b/Installation/cmake/modules/FindMPFR.cmake
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
# MPFR_LIBRARIES_DIR - Directory where the MPFR libraries are located
# MPFR_LIBRARIES - the MPFR libraries
-# TODO: support MacOSX
-
include(FindPackageHandleStandardArgs)
include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/CGAL_GeneratorSpecificSettings.cmake)
diff --git a/Installation/include/CGAL/config.h b/Installation/include/CGAL/config.h
index bd5dafbf017..3506137af1a 100644
--- a/Installation/include/CGAL/config.h
+++ b/Installation/include/CGAL/config.h
@@ -243,20 +243,6 @@
# define CGAL_SUNPRO_INITIALIZE(C)
#endif
-//----------------------------------------------------------------------//
-// MacOSX specific.
-//----------------------------------------------------------------------//
-
-#ifdef __APPLE__
-# if defined(__GNUG__) && (__GNUG__ == 4) && (__GNUC_MINOR__ == 0) \
- && defined(__OPTIMIZE__) && !defined(CGAL_NO_WARNING_FOR_MACOSX_GCC_4_0_BUG)
-# warning "Your configuration may exhibit run-time errors in CGAL code"
-# warning "This appears with g++ 4.0 on MacOSX when optimizing"
-# warning "You can disable this warning using -DCGAL_NO_WARNING_FOR_MACOSX_GCC_4_0_BUG"
-# warning "For more information, see https://www.cgal.org/FAQ.html#mac_optimization_bug"
-# endif
-#endif
-
//-------------------------------------------------------------------//
// When the global min and max are no longer defined (as macros)
// because of NOMINMAX flag definition, we define our own global
diff --git a/MacOSX/auxiliary/cgal_app.icns b/MacOSX/auxiliary/cgal_app.icns
deleted file mode 100644
index 19cc33fadb1..00000000000
Binary files a/MacOSX/auxiliary/cgal_app.icns and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/MacOSX/package_info/MacOSX/copyright b/MacOSX/package_info/MacOSX/copyright
deleted file mode 100644
index 0f433a97f01..00000000000
--- a/MacOSX/package_info/MacOSX/copyright
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (Greece).
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/MacOSX/package_info/MacOSX/description.txt b/MacOSX/package_info/MacOSX/description.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 93fd0201502..00000000000
--- a/MacOSX/package_info/MacOSX/description.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Package for MacOSX support.
-Contains scripts and icon files needed for creating demos
-in the MacOSX operating system.
diff --git a/MacOSX/package_info/MacOSX/maintainer b/MacOSX/package_info/MacOSX/maintainer
deleted file mode 100644
index b172ee135bb..00000000000
--- a/MacOSX/package_info/MacOSX/maintainer
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Menelaos Karavelas
diff --git a/MacOSX/scripts/cgal_make_macosx_app b/MacOSX/scripts/cgal_make_macosx_app
deleted file mode 100755
index 045cec21c0a..00000000000
--- a/MacOSX/scripts/cgal_make_macosx_app
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,102 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-# Copyright (c) 2005,2006,2013
-# Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (Greece).
-# All rights reserved.
-#
-# This file is part of CGAL (www.cgal.org); you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; version 3 of the License,
-# or (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# Licensees holding a valid commercial license may use this file in
-# accordance with the commercial license agreement provided with the software.
-#
-# This file is provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE
-# WARRANTY OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-#
-# $URL$
-# $Id$
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-or-later OR LicenseRef-Commercial
-#
-# Authors: Herve Bronnimann
-# Menelaos Karavelas
-# Eric Berberich
-
-# This script creates the appropriate directory structure so that a CGAL
-# Qt demo can be run on MacOSX
-
-usage()
-{
- echo "Usage: cgal_make_macosx_app executable"
-}
-
-
-case $# in
- 0) usage
- exit 1
-esac
-
-
-for i do
- if [ -x "$i" ] ; then
- EXECUTABLE=$i
- else
- usage
- exit 1
- fi
-done
-
-if [ -z "$EXECUTABLE.app" ] ; then
- mkdir $EXECUTABLE.app
-fi
-
-test -d $EXECUTABLE.app/Contents/MacOS/ || mkdir -p $EXECUTABLE.app/Contents/MacOS/
-strip $EXECUTABLE
-cp $EXECUTABLE $EXECUTABLE.app/Contents/MacOS/$EXECUTABLE
-
-rm -f $EXECUTABLE.app/Contents/PkgInfo
-echo "APPL????" > $EXECUTABLE.app/Contents/PkgInfo
-
-rm -f $EXECUTABLE.app/Contents/Info.plist
-cat > $EXECUTABLE.app/Contents/Info.plist <
-
-
-
- CFBundleIconFile
- cgal_app.icns
- CFBundlePackageType
- APPL
- CFBundleGetInfoString
- Created by CGAL
- CFBundleSignature
- ttxt
- CFBundleExecutable
- $EXECUTABLE
-ENDINFO
-
-if [ -d "help" ] ; then
-cat >> $EXECUTABLE.app/Contents/Info.plist <CFBundleHelpBookFolder
- Help
- CFBundleHelpBookName
- Help
-ENDINFO
- test -d $EXECUTABLE.app/Contents/Resources/Help || mkdir -p $EXECUTABLE.app/Contents/Resources/Help
- cp -r help/* $EXECUTABLE.app/Contents/Resources/Help
- ln -s index.html $EXECUTABLE.app/Contents/Resources/Help/Help.html
-fi
-
-cat >> $EXECUTABLE.app/Contents/Info.plist <NOTE
- This file was generated by CGAL/scripts/cgal_make_macosx_app.
-
-
-ENDINFO
-
-test -d $EXECUTABLE.app/Contents/Resources || mkdir -p $EXECUTABLE.app/Contents/Resources
-DIR=$( cd "$( dirname "$0" )" && pwd )
-cp $DIR/../auxiliary/cgal_app.icns $EXECUTABLE.app/Contents/Resources
-echo "created $EXECUTABLE.app ..."
diff --git a/Profiling_tools/include/CGAL/Memory_sizer.h b/Profiling_tools/include/CGAL/Memory_sizer.h
index 6d0551ef7f9..b7106f412e2 100644
--- a/Profiling_tools/include/CGAL/Memory_sizer.h
+++ b/Profiling_tools/include/CGAL/Memory_sizer.h
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
#include
#include
-// This has only been implemented for MacOSX/Darwin, Linux and VC++ for now.
+// This has only been implemented for macOS/Darwin, Linux and VC++ for now.
#if !defined _MSC_VER && !defined __linux__ && !defined __APPLE__
#include
diff --git a/Scripts/developer_scripts/create_macosx_installer b/Scripts/developer_scripts/create_macosx_installer
deleted file mode 100755
index 1fcdc60e1c9..00000000000
--- a/Scripts/developer_scripts/create_macosx_installer
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,78 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/tcsh
-#
-# create the MacOSX CGAL disk image and package
-#
-# For releases 3.2 and on
-#
-# The script assumes that the current directory is the MacOSX_Installer
-# directory of the Maintenance package
-#
-# Author(s): Menelaos Karavelas, 2006
-
-# Modify the following lines according to your release and configuration
-
-# modify the following line for your release
-setenv CGALVER $2
-
-# modify the following line to reflect the size of the disk image you
-# want to create
-setenv VOLSIZE 7m
-
-# modify the following lines if the MacOSX applications reside at different
-# paths than the ones shown below
-setenv HDIUTIL /usr/bin/hdiutil
-setenv PACKAGEMAKERAPP /Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app
-setenv PACKAGEMAKER ${PACKAGEMAKERAPP}/Contents/MacOS/PackageMaker
-
-# this is the directory where the script temporarily puts files
-setenv TMP_ROOT /tmp/MacOSX_Installer
-
-####### DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING BEYIND THIS POINT #######
-setenv CUR_DIR `pwd`
-setenv VOLNAME CGAL-${CGALVER}
-
-# cleanup files that should not be there
-rm -f ${VOLNAME}.dmg
-rm -fr ${TMP_ROOT}
-
-# create a copy of the CGAL package structure
-mkdir -p ${TMP_ROOT}
-cp -rp Package_root ${TMP_ROOT}
-cp -rp Resources ${TMP_ROOT}
-cp -rp CGAL-absolute.pmproj ${TMP_ROOT}
-cd ${TMP_ROOT}
-
-# copy the CGAL tarball at its correct place and uncompress it
-cp -p $1 Package_root
-cd Package_root
-tar xvfz CGAL-${CGALVER}.tar.gz
-rm -f CGAL-${CGALVER}.tar.gz
-
-# now the building phase starts
-cd ..
-
-# build the package
-${PACKAGEMAKER} -build -ds -proj CGAL-absolute.pmproj -p CGAL.pkg -v
-
-# create the disk image
-${HDIUTIL} create -ov -size ${VOLSIZE} -fs HFS+ -type UDIF -volname ${VOLNAME} CGAL-tmp.dmg
-
-# mount the disk image
-${HDIUTIL} attach CGAL-tmp.dmg
-
-# move the CGAL package to the disk image
-mv CGAL.pkg /Volumes/${VOLNAME}
-
-# unmount the disk image
-${HDIUTIL} detach /Volumes/${VOLNAME}
-
-# convert the disk image to a read-only one
-${HDIUTIL} convert -ov CGAL-tmp.dmg -format UDRO -o CGAL-RO.dmg
-rm -f CGAL-tmp.dmg
-
-# copy the converted disk image to the original directory
-cp -p CGAL-RO.dmg ${CUR_DIR}/${VOLNAME}.dmg
-
-# cleanup temporary files
-rm -fr ${TMP_ROOT}
-
diff --git a/copyright b/copyright
index b32d3a58fc8..79f53928578 100644
--- a/copyright
+++ b/copyright
@@ -69,7 +69,6 @@ R = RU Groningen
LEDA ETIMU
Largest_empty_rect_2 T
Linear_cell_complex CNRS
- MacOSX F
Maintenance ETIMUG
Manual ETIMU
Manual_tools EIM, Modena Software, Silicon Graphics