Installing RAFT on OS X Lion

raft_on_lion.txt

You'll find that getting QT to play nicely on Lion is less than intuitive and painful much less getting all of the Eric IDE pre-requisites working, as well. In a effort to ease your pains, here's the steps that I went through:

btw, these instructions are assuming you have an Intel Mac (I doubt Lion supports PowerPC, though).

Xcode
  - What developer hasn't installed Xcode on his Mac, yet?!?
  - Xcode has the build tools that everything needs so you'll need this.

Python
  - I think the OS X version of Python will work but I used python2.7 from Homebrew
  - You can figure this part out for yourself <= I'm too lazy!

Qt 4.8.1 <= as of this writing
  - Download the SDK from here: http://qt-project.org/downloads
    - I used the Online SDK installer but the Offline installer will probably work too.
  - Just install the pkg like you normally would but be patient since this WILL take a while.

SIP
  - Don't ask me what this is, just install it because you need it.
  - Download it from here: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk
  - tar -xvzf sip-<some version number>.tar.gz
  - cd sip-<some version number>
  - export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.7
  - python configure.py -n --arch=x86_64 -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.7.sdk
  - make
  - sudo make install

QScintilla - Qt4
  - Don't ask me what this is, just install it because you need it.
  - Download it from here: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk
  - tar -xvzf QScintilla-<some version number>.tar.gz
  - cd QScintilla-<some version number>
  - cd Qt4
  - /Users/<username>/QtSDK/Desktop/Qt/4.8.1/gcc/bin/qmake qscintilla.pro -spec /Users/<username>/QtSDK/Desktop/Qt/4.8.1/gcc/mkspecs/macx-g++
  - make
  - sudo make install

PyQt
  - This is used to bind python to the Qt framework
  - Download it from here: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk
  - tar -xvzf PyQt-mac-<some version number>.tar.gz
  - cd PyQt-mac-<some version number>
  - export QTDIR=/Users/<username>/QtSDK
  - python configure.py -q /Users/<username>/QtSDK/Desktop/Qt/4.8.1/gcc/bin/qmake -a --use-arch=x86_64
    - accept the license
  - make
  - sudo make install

QScintilla - python
  - cd QScintilla-<some version number>
  - cd Python
  - python configure.py
  - make
  - sudo make install

RAFT (finally)
  - Download RAFT here: svn checkout http://raft.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ raft-read-only
  - cd raft-read-only
  - sudo python setup.py py2app  <= I'm not sure if I had to install p2app before this
  - and finally:
    - open dist
    - double-click on RAFT.app  <= hooray!