TexTools for Mac

[YouCleverBoy]

I'm trying to dabble in modding, but for the life of me I can't find this "TexTools" thing I'm supposed to use. I've searched through several guides and the only ones I can find are for Windows or dead links. I tried searching the web but I found nothing as described by said guides.

[simplex]

There's ktech, in the ktools. But it's a command line tool and there's no precompiled Mac binary, so it requires some experience in (or at least willingness to) using the terminal and compiling software yourself.

[YouCleverBoy]

EDIT: I'm going to rephrase that.

 

I have very limited skill with coding, so I have no idea where to begin. I went into the ktech file where I found several lines of script. From what you said, I'm supposed to stick a certain command line into the configure terminal in order to change a png to a tex file. Is that correct? Trouble is, even after looking at the README I can't figure out how I'm supposed to compile this. And am I supposed to name the png files something specific? I read somewhere about "atlas-0."

 

I'm not asking anyone to hold my hand, but to someone who's never written code before can someone at least throw me a bone?

[simplex]

EDIT: I'm going to rephrase that.

 

I have very limited skill with coding, so I have no idea where to begin. I went into the ktech file where I found several lines of script. From what you said, I'm supposed to stick a certain command line into the configure terminal in order to change a png to a tex file. Is that correct? Trouble is, even after looking at the README I can't figure out how I'm supposed to compile this. And am I supposed to name the png files something specific? I read somewhere about "atlas-0."

 

I'm not asking anyone to hold my hand, but to someone who's never written code before can someone at least throw me a bone?

What you need to do first is compile ktools. For that, you'll need XCode, CMake and ImageMagick. XCode is the set of developer tools/programs offered by Apple and downloaded from their official website or from the App Store (unfortunately it's a fairly large download, since Mac OS X comes without any dev tools); just make sure to install a version of XCode matching your OS X version. CMake is also a binary download. The recommended way of installing ImageMagick is via MacPorts (which is itself a binary download). Once MacPorts is installed, type

$ sudo port install imagemagick

which should download and install imagemagick automatically (do not type the '$', this is just used to indicate you should type it in a terminal). Once these dependencies are taken care of, enter the ktools directory in a terminal (i.e., "cd" to it) and type

$ ./configure && make

as instructed in the README.