Getting qxw to work on Mac OS X
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For further info, see "... how about Mac OS X?" here: 
https://www.quinapalus.com/xwfaq.html

Hope the following info helps!

Feedback welcome; if this does help, drop me a line; I'd love to know if
anyone else out there uses qxw on OS X.

Dan Friedman
If you're trying to email me, my email address is danieljasonfriedman and my
email provider is Gmail.
Toronto, Dec 2023

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## The following steps have worked for me on Ventura (last checked: Dec 2023).

1) Get the 20200708 distribution of qxw from https://www.quinapalus.com

2) If you don't have the xcode command line tools installed: unpack the qxw
distribution, cd into the directory where the makefile is and type "make." Mac
OS will prompt you to install the xcode command line tools (gcc, make, and so
on); accept the prompt to do so.

3) Install XQuartz https://www.xquartz.org

4) Install Mac Ports https://www.macports.org

...and the following ports (you may see complaints about xcode not being fully
installed; don't worry, this will still work):

sudo port install gtk2
sudo port install pkgconfig
sudo port install pcre
sudo port install cairo
sudo port install pango

5) Patch the makefile as follows:

http://orange-carb.org/~dan/qxw/qxw-20200708.ventura.patch

6) Type "make" and then run qxw from the command line.

http://orange-carb.org/~dan/qxw/qxw-20200708-running-on-ventura.jpg

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## The following steps have worked for me on Yosemite and El Capitan (last
checked: 2017).

1) Get the 20140331 distribution of qxw from https://www.quinapalus.com

2) If you don't have the xcode command line tools installed: unpack the qxw
distribution, cd into the directory where the makefile is and type "make." Mac
OS will prompt you to install the xcode command line tools (gcc, make, and so
on); accept the prompt to do so.

3) Install XQuartz https://www.xquartz.org

4) Install Mac Ports https://www.macports.org

...and the following ports (you may see complaints about xcode not being fully
installed; don't worry, this will still work):

sudo port install gtk2
sudo port install pkgconfig

5) Patch the makefile as follows:

http://orange-carb.org/~dan/qxw/qxw-20140331.yosemite.patch

6) Type "make" and then run qxw from the command line.

http://orange-carb.org/~dan/qxw/qxw-20140331-running-on-yosemite.jpg
http://orange-carb.org/~dan/qxw/qxw-20140331-running-on-elcapitan.jpg