Wt

h1. Installing Wt on OS X

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The following are generic installation instructions for installing Wt (from source) on OS X 10.5 "Leopard" and above.

_Only support for the built-in httpd server is listed here. While this is most convenient for development, and also useful for deployment, we probably should expand these instructions to include support for the FastCGI connector._

h2. Requirements 

* Get "Xcode":http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/ to get the compilers and basic libraries.

* Get "CMake":http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html.

* Download "Boost 1.41.0":http://www.boost.org/users/download/ (or later).

h2. Preparation 

h3. Build Boost

The following builds and installs Boost in /usr/local:

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$ cd boost*

$ ./bootstrap.sh

$ sudo ./b2 install

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If you would like to install in a different directory, you should run @./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/custom/directory@ instead.

You will get warnings that not all features will be built, but Wt doesn't require those.

If you used the --prefix option when building Boost, you will need to modify your dynamic library path:

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$ export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/custom/directory/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

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h2. Building Wt 

Get the "latest Wt version":http://sourceforge.net/projects/witty/files/wt/. 

To build Wt, do the following:

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$ cd wt-3*

$ mkdir build

$ cd build

$ cmake ../

$ make

$ make -C examples # to build the examples

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_NOTE: If you used the --prefix option when compiling Boost, you must run @cmake -DBOOST_DIR=/custom/directory@ instead of just @cmake@._

To run the examples, please see the "generic installation instructions":http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt/doc/reference/html/Installation.html#examples-wthttpd.