Great news! I will try it out.

Requires X11? Really? After 5 years of development the native GTK2 port for OSX is still unusable?

I don't know if its usable or not but there must be a reason why GIMP and Inkscape builds for OSX still require X11. Sorry, we have a limited manpower and just copied their approach. We would like to investigate the approach with native GTK2 when we will have time and resources. Thank you.

finally!, gonna try right now! :D

It is excellent, thanks!!! I have been waiting for it for a long time.
I'm testing it. The main problem is that the export feature does not work for the video file options.
I hope it can be corrected somehow.
Thanks again!

Finally, Synfig installs properly. So far, it runs perfectly.

MacBook 10.6.8, 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM.

Looking forward to using it.

D.

Later : Just tried it on my 2008 iMac, running Leopard. Crashes immediately.

Ditto to above - 2008 MBP with C2D 2.4, 3GB Ram, OS X Leopard 10.5.8, X11. Installed from the .DMG, then crashed immediately.
I'm trying via macports now... waiting for dependencies.

16/04/12 11:26:34 AM [0x0-0x209209].SynfigStudio[36342] launch
16/04/12 11:26:34 AM [0x0-0x209209].SynfigStudio[36342] dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022
16/04/12 11:26:34 AM ReportCrash[36370] Formulating crash report for process synfigstudio[36342]
16/04/12 11:26:34 AM com.apple.launchd[94] ([0x0-0x209209].SynfigStudio[36342]) Exited abnormally: Trace/BPT trap
16/04/12 11:26:34 AM ReportCrash[36370] Saved crashreport to /Users/*username*/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/synfigstudio_2012-04-16-112634_macbookPro.crash using uid: 501 gid: 20, euid: 501 egid: 20

nope... glibmm fails to install via macports. These are the reasons I left linux....
Keep up the good/hard work. I'll check back later.

David Hughes & Dwayne:
The provided DMG package is built on OSX 10.6, it reported to work for 10.6.x & 10.7.x, but there is a very few chances it will run on 10.5.x macs. Unfortunately we don't have 10.5.x mac on hand to build DMG for this version of OSX, sorry.

in my coputer the synfig studio is there but when i open the timeline key frame colours are not appearing what to do

SynfigStudio v0.63.05 runs fine from the DMG. However, when copied to /Applications or to /Users/myusername/Applications, it doesn't run and shows a circle with a line through the icon. How can this be remedied?

abhi:
Can you clarify what do you mean by "keyframe colors"? Any screenshot?

whatever:
Please report your version of OSX. We will try to reproduce the problem.

The "dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022" error message is a known error on Mac OS X 10.5 if the application was targeted at 10.6 or above.

These two pages suggest small modifications to the build process which should prevent the error: (1) http://grauonline.de/wordpress/?p=71 (2) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1440456/static-libraries-in-version-cross-compiled-program#7835983

This assumes that the application itself doesn't require any 10.6+ specific features.

I managed to successfully install Synfig on an Intel OS X 10.5.8 machine using homebrew with a couple of minor recipe edits.

I have extensive notes on the process I went through along with the edits I made here: http://www.labradoc.com/i/follower/p/notes-software-synfig (For some reason there was an issue with Pango in ImageMagick so I just disabled it.)

The final result (after using Blender to add audio) produced this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoOFNtFjOCU

Thanks for your work! :)

Hi!
Thank you very much for your advice about the "dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022" error!
We will fix our build scripts and will try your solution.
(I believe Synfig is not depend 10.6+ specific features).
K.

Mac 10.8 loads forever then does not respond. I seem to have a version of x11 but do I have to start that somehow before starting synfig? Bit confused as I was used to linux.

Hi, I downloaded the dmg and install it in my application folder, but when i start the application it doesn't work. What do i wrong?

Hi, Patrick!
Please specify which version of Mac OSX you have.
Also It would be nice to clarify what do you mean by "doesn't work". Nothing happens? It crashes? Not responding?
Thanks,
K.

Hi,

I'm having what might be the same problem as Patrick's. Whether I try to run from the DMG or from my applications folder, the icon for Synfig just stalls in the dock, and I'm told the program is not responding. I'm running 10.6.3 so am unsure why this is occurring... if you see this message, any advice would be much appreciated!

For people that are using Mountain Lion, please see this thread:
http://www.synfig.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4052
For 10.6 series I can't help much, sorry.

Can't run on my MAC OS X 10.8.2 with errors below.


2/17/13 4:38:23.496 PM DiskImages UI Agent[450]: *** WARNING: Method userSpaceScaleFactor in class NSWindow is deprecated on 10.7 and later. It should not be used in new applications. Use convertRectToBacking: instead.
2/17/13 4:38:24.791 PM DiskImages UI Agent[450]: *** -[NSMachPort handlePortMessage:]: dropping incoming DO message because the connection is invalid
2/17/13 4:38:27.021 PM CoreServicesUIAgent[446]: Error: qtn_file_apply_to_path error: Read-only file system
2/17/13 4:38:36.629 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[205]: ([0x0-0x3a03a].SynfigStudio[464]) Exited with code: 1

Are you using our official bundled OSX packages? I'm using 0.63.05 with 10.8.2 with no issue.
Notice that you need to install XQuarz to run any X11 application on Mountain Lion:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5293