TBH it involved downloading QT Creator, modifying a number of build config files, macports (long story), building the c++ libs manually, manually packaging all the frameworks for deployment and libraries as well so it can get dicey- and that's after me figuring stuff out for 2days (admittedly this is my first foray into OSX development- but I do program other languages daily/smyjob).

If it helps I will be posting the final code to GitHub so you may glean some insights from that. I used macports to install the source files for the needed libraries to build the deployment (homebrew is an alternative) and I used the kittehcoin repository (https://github.com/kittehcoin/kittehcoin) as my starting point. I did lots of referencing against litecoin and dogecoin as well in order to get everything right. I really want to commit the code to that repo but if I don't hear back from the dev I may start a kittehcoin/kittecoin-qt project on github or something idk we need to keep the ball moving on this project.

Working on backwards compatibility with older versions of OSX now...