Wednesday, December 30, 2009

how to install Wt on Mac OS

What is Wt?
Wt (pronounced 'witty') is a C++ library for developing interactive web applications.

In July 2009, I tried installing Wt 2.99.2.  Right away I realized this was not going to be a simple task. I had to retry installing it a few times, so I kept notes of what I tried so that I would know what I did once I finally got it working. After a few days, I still hadn't got it working. I had trouble getting Wt to find my boost installation. The problem turned out to be that I did not do an 'install' command. Several different ways and options were given for installing and I did not understand the differences. Such as the difference between the build and the install.

Finally, at the end of December, I tried again. There was a new version of Wt (3.0.0), so I downloaded it.

The following shows you what I saved as my successful steps to installing Wt on Mac OS X version 10.5.8.  These steps could be improved and are not meant to be the ideal path, but are here to help anyone like me who searched the web to find how to install Wt on Mac OS.