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Installing Qt4 on Mac OS X

January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I wanted to install Darwin Ports in order to install Qt4 on my Mac but that turned out unsessfully for me. Qt4 would install but I was unable to locate qmake in order to compile a Qt4 application.

Anyway, I found another way to acomplish this (which might also make it possible to install Amarok2 later on) using the KDE4 for Mac OS X packages availalble at mac.kde.org/?id=download. All you need to download and install are the first two packages “Base System” and “Qt4.4″ (respecting that order).

The installation completed qmake is available from /opt/local/bin/qmake.

To install a Qt4 application, it’s simple.

  • Download the source and unzip it.
  • Using the terminal, cd into the directory
  • run /opt/local/bin/qmake
  • run make
  • run sudo -c “make install”

Using Spotlight, you should be able to run the installed application.

I tested it with QtMPC (a MPD server client)


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