Installation for Mac OS X users =============================== We try to keep the Wiki pages on compiling Inkscape up-to-date and comprehensive. It is here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX For a brief overview: We suggest to use macports (http://macports.org) in order to achieve all the necessary components and libraries. Then there is a mighty tool called "osx-build.sh" in the packaging/macosx directory of the unpacked tarball. This script will do most of the work for you.