Installing the GD library on OSX Leopardĭownload mysql-5.1. from the website.Workaround for Tidy’s platform.h problem.Installing Readline on OSX without using Fink or Darwinports.This installation would not have been possible without help from the following websites: Xcode (from the Leopard DVD or Apple Developer connection ).We will also need to install the following software dependencies: The software stack we are going to install will be as follows: If you don’t want to go through all the trouble and use a binary installation, read this post.Using this approach would mean that you will need to maintain the stack by hand.These are instructions for the Intel Macs.The installation won’t make use of Fink or Darwinports either.We won’t be running any binary installations, all software will be compiled from source.Update: Updated post (on December 11, 2008) here.
