Some preliminary notes: (This will all be obsolete once CMake is used.) The file configure.MacOSX contains the call to ./configure that *I* use to create a MacOSX application bundle for Scribus. Recently another user has used this instructions to compile Scribus on an Intel-Mac. If you use fink, install libart, libjpeg, libtiff, libpng, lcms and freetype219. Make sure that freetype-config and pkg-config pick up the right libraries (freetype under /usrX11R6 is unusable). Don't forget to set QTDIR and include $QTDIR/bin in your PATH. To compile Scribus: source configure.MacOSX make make_install ./install_MacOSX.sh The last command does automatically what is explained in the following section: Scribus.app contains some files for the OSX application bundle infrastructure: Contents/Info.plist application properties Contents/Resources application icons Contents/MacOS application binary Currently you have to copy the Info.plist and the icon files to the install location yourself and create a sysmlink in MacOS: bash$ cd Contents/MacOS bash$ ln -s ../bin/scribus Scribus