THIS IS OUTDATED! Some preliminary notes: 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 Mac OS X build support is being continuously improved in 1.3.5svn, and CMake is able to produce a .app bundle on install.