$(CGALROOT)/INSTALL.MacOSX for CGAL
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This file describes how to install CGAL on the MacOSX operating
system. CGAL has been tested on Panther and Tiger. The instructions
below refer to both Panther and Tiger unless otherwise stated explicitly.

For installation on Unix and on Cygwin, please see INSTALL.
For installation under Windows using native tools, see INSTALL.win32

The documentation of CGAL is available in various formats (HTML, PostScript,
PDF). It is not bundled with the software but can be downloaded separately.

For more information about CGAL, see the URL http://www.cgal.org/.


Installation
- Download the compressed archive file from the CGAL web site www.cgal.org
- unpack the file in the place in which you wish to install it
- install the CGAL libraries: 
  the impatient can just try to run "./install_cgal -i", but we recommend
  to first have a look at the Installation notes. 
  These are available in several formats. A PostScript file named
  installation.ps.gz can be found in the directory doc_ps.
  The HTML version is in doc_html/installation/main.html and 
  the PDF documentation is in the directory doc_pdf.


Boost
CGAL needs boost in order to work. To install boost go to
www.boost.org and download the source tarball and the tarball for
bjam. To install boost follow the instructions in www.boost.org (it is
recommended to use the default install path).


GMP
Some examples and demos need GMP. In order to use it you have to
install it. You can either download the sources from www.swox.com/gmp
and follow the installation instructions in there or use fink to do
that (try: fink install gmp; you need to install both the gmp and
gmp-shlibs packages).


Building the Demos

The demos come in CGALROOT/demo directory. The demos need Qt installed.
You can download Qt for MacOSX from www.trolltech.com. Tiger needs Qt
version 3.3.5 or later.


Running the Demos

In order to run the examples you need to apply the cgal_make_macosx_app
script which creates the appropriate directory structure so that a CGAL
Qt demo can be run on MacOSX. The script resides in
$(CGALROOT)/scripts and should be applied to the executable created by
the demo makefile:
    prompt:> $(CGALROOT)/scripts/cgal_make_macosx_app <demo-executable>
The script creates a directory <demo-executable>.app/ which is the
root directory of the directory structure needed by MacOSX.
To run the demo use the "open" command from the prompt:
    prompt:> open <demo-executable>.app

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