Installing DJVIEW4 on Mac OS X for viewing .djvu files

First make sure that you've installed xcode. xcode 3 is free. Means, xcode 4 is not. You can download it from Apple.

Then, download dvulibre from here http://djvu.sourceforge.net/.

$ cd Desktop
$ open http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.13.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf wget-1.13.tar.gz
$ cd wget-1.13
$ ./configure --without-ssl
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..
$ wget http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v8c.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf jpegsrc.v8c.tar.gz
$ cd jpeg-8c/
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..
$ wget http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.25.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf pkg-config-0.25.tar.gz 
$ cd pkg-config-0.25
$ ./configure 
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..
$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/djvu/djvulibre-3.5.24.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf djvulibre-3.5.24.tar.gz
$ cd djvulibre-3.5.24
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..

Then download QT4 (google search term is "downloading qt4") and install it. It's a standard package for mac and so there is no need to do it from terminal.

DJVIEW 4 can be downloaded from http://djvu.sourceforge.net/djview4.html.

$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/djvu/djview-4.8.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf djview-4.8.tar.gz
$ cd djview-4.8
$ ./configure QMAKE=$HOME/QtSDK/Desktop/Qt/473/gcc/bin/qmake
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd ..
$ djview filename.djvu

You should see a window opening with your ebook on it. I needed to install this to read one of the ebooks I found online.

Note: Always, don't go for latest versions. Most of the time they are unstable and don't work well. Just go for the version just before the latest. For example, I had problems with pkg-config latest version 0.26. But 0.25 worked beautifully without any problems. For some reason djviewlibre didn't work with tiff library. I didn't have time to fix that either. So I used ./configure --without-tiff and it worked for me. I didn't install pdflib too. But the minimum works for me well.