1 * BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS 8/9 AND MAC OS X -*- outline -*-
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16 * BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS X
18 You should be able to build Emacs on Mac OS X by typing the following
19 commands at the top-level directory after the source distribution is
22 ./configure --enable-carbon-app
26 The last step may fail if you do not have permissions to install. If
27 you try to install into /usr (with ./configure --prefix=/usr), then you
28 must install as root using the sudo command. However, it is not
29 recommended; see the notes section below for more details.
31 The --enable-carbon-app specifies that the carbon GUI application
32 should be installed into /Application. If you want it to install in a
33 different location, specify --enable-carbon-app=<mydir>
35 If you have X Window installed on your Mac and you are building Emacs
36 to run under Carbon and not X Window, you need to type `./configure
37 --without-x' instead of `./configure'.
39 You can type `make bootstrap' instead of `make' to rebuild everything,
40 including byte-compiling the Lisp files.
42 If you are compiling on Mac OS X versions before 10.2 and have not
43 installed the GNU texinfo package on your system, the build will
44 complain that makeinfo cannot be found. Instructions for installing the
45 GNU texinfo package are given below. Alternatively, you can type `make
46 -k' instead of `make' and safely ignore the error messages and use the
49 After Emacs is installed, you can run it by typing `emacs -nw' from a
50 terminal (make sure your path contains /usr/local/bin) or by
51 double-clicking on /Applications/Emacs.app in the Finder. To start
52 Emacs as a GUI application from the terminal, the pathname to the
53 executable in the bundle, i.e.,
55 /Application/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
57 must be typed to the shell to enable Emacs to locate its resources
58 correctly. You may want to create a symlink or alias to this path to
59 quickly access both the terminal and GUI versions.
61 If you are building Emacs to run on Mac OS X and X Window, you need to
62 create a directory containing statically-linked X libraries.
64 sudo mkdir /usr/X11R6/libstatic
65 cd /usr/X11R6/libstatic
66 sudo ln -s ../lib/lib*.a ../lib/X11 .
68 Instead of typing `./configure' above, type
70 ./configure --without-carbon --with-x --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/libstatic
72 To use colors in a terminal, put the following lines in the file
73 ~/.termcap and log in again.
77 vt100|vt100-am|vt100am|dec vt100:\
78 :pa#64:Co#8:Sf=\E[3%dm:Sb=\E[4%dm:op=\E[m:AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm:\
79 :do=^J:co#80:li#24:cl=\E[;H\E[2J:sf=2*\ED:\
80 :le=^H:bs:am:cm=5\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=2\E[C:up=2\E[A:\
81 :ce=3\E[K:cd=50\E[J:so=2\E[7m:se=2\E[m:us=2\E[4m:ue=2\E[m:\
82 :md=2\E[1m:mr=2\E[7m:mb=2\E[5m:me=2\E[m:\
83 :rf=/usr/share/tabset/vt100:\
84 :rs=\E>\E[?3l\E[?4l\E[?5l\E[?7h\E[?8h\E[;r\E[0m\E(B\E)B\E[2J:\
85 :ks=\E[?1h\E=:ke=\E[?1l\E>:\
86 :ku=\EOA:kd=\EOB:kr=\EOC:kl=\EOD:kb=^H:\
87 :ho=\E[H:k1=\EOP:k2=\EOQ:k3=\EOR:k4=\EOS:pt:sr=2*\EM:vt#3:xn:\
88 :sc=\E7:rc=\E8:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:
91 To build the `info' files in versions prior to Mac OS X 10.2, you need
92 to install the texinfo software.
94 To install from source, obtain texinfo-4.2.tar.gz from ftp.gnu.org or
95 a mirror. Un-tar it, enter its directory and type
101 The last step may need to be performed as root (sudo make install).
103 You may also like to install ispell, which will allow you to use
104 ispell and flyspell-mode. To install ispell from source, you first
105 need to install GNU textutils.
107 To do so, download textutils-2.0.tar.gz from ftp.gnu.org or a mirror.
108 Un-tar it, enter its directory, type
110 ./configure --host=powerpc-apple-bsd
114 Again, the last step may need to be performed as root. Note that if you
115 run `make check', the test for `pr' will fail.
117 Get and un-tar ispell-3.2.06.tar.gz. Look for it here:
119 http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html
121 Go into its directory, type
123 cp local.h.samp local.h
125 Add a line `#define TERMLIB ""' to the end of local.h.
127 Set the environment variable TMPDIR to an existing directory. For
128 example since `/tmp' exists on my machine and I am using `bash', I
133 Run `make' and `make install', the latter as root.
135 * BUILDING BINARY DISTRIBUTIONS FOR MAC OS X
137 If you are intending to build a binary distribution of Emacs, there is
138 a script that will greatly simplify the process. It is called
139 make-package and it is contained in this directory. It will generate
140 a disc image containing a installer bundle. By default the installer
141 will place the emacs common files in /usr/local/* and the carbon
142 application in /Applications. Typical usage would be
146 After running, an compressed disk image of the installer will be placed
147 in a file called EmacsInstaller.dmg. This file can be then distributed
148 to whomever would like a binary distribution. Here are the common
151 --with-x - Use the X11 GUI instead of the Carbon GUI.
152 --prefix=DIR - Place the common emacs files in the given DIR. The
153 default is /usr/local. See note below if placing
155 --self-contained - Place the common emacs files inside the Emacs.app
156 itself. This makes the application trivial to
157 uninstall and copy between computers.
158 --app-symlink - Use a symlink inside the Application to the
159 $prefix/bin/emacs to reduce disk space. Note, this
160 option may removed in the future.
162 If you are intending to build a binary distribution for X windows, you
163 will probably want to follow the directions above to create static
164 X11R6 libraries and run the make-package script like this
166 ./make-package --with-x -C,--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/libstatic
168 For usage of other options, use the --help option.
170 * BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS 8/9
172 You can use either Metrowerks CodeWarrior Pro 6 or MPW-GM (Aug. 2001)
173 to build Emacs. MPW-GM can be downloaded free of charge from Apple.
175 In either case, you will need MPW-GM to build the make-docfile utility
176 and to generate the doc string file DOC.
178 ### IMPORTANT ### You can use StuffIf Expander to decompress and untar
179 the distribution. However, you *must* set the radio button in the
180 Preferences->Cross Platform->Convert text files to Macintosh format to
181 "Never". Otherwise the compiled Lisp files will be corrupted.
183 (Optional) A subset of the fonts from the GNU intlfonts-1.2
184 distribution converted to NFNT format can be obtained from
186 ftp://mac-emacs.sourceforge.net/pub/mac-emacs/GNU-fonts.smi.bin
188 To build Emacs in the MPW Shell, simply set the directory to
189 ...:emacs:mac: and build the target Emacs of the make file
190 makefile.mpw. I.e., execute the commands
192 make Emacs -f makefile.MPW > Emacs.MakeScript
195 To build Emacs using CodeWarrior, start up the CodeWarrior IDE, choose
196 File->Import Project... and select the file cw6-mcp.xml. When
197 prompted to save the project, navigate to same directory as the file
198 cw6-mcp.xml, name the project emacs-cw6.mcp, and save it there. Then
199 choose Project->Make. Note that this does not build the DOC file. To
200 do so, use MPW and build the target "Doc" in makefile.MPW.
202 Once built, the Emacs application (Emacs CW or Emacs MPW) can be
203 launched where it is created.
205 To build an optimized version of Emacs in CodeWarrior, change the
206 value in the Emacs Settings->Code Generation->Global Optimization
207 dialog. To build a version for profiling, check the Profiler
208 Information box in the Emacs Settings->Code Generation->PPC Processor
209 dialog and include the Profiler PPC.Lib library.
213 Emacs should build and run on a PowerMac running Mac OS 8.6 - 10.2.
215 You will need around 100 MB of disk space for the source files and
218 It will not run on machines running Mac OS 8/9 with more than 256 MB
219 of physical or virtual memory. It does not have this restriction when
220 it is run under Mac OS X. But the usual 128MB buffer limit of a
221 32-bit Emacs still exists.
223 Under Mac OS 8/9, there is no support for building the LEIM directory.
224 However, it can be built on Mac OS X or another platform and
225 transferred to the Mac.
227 On Mac OS 8/9, to use the same icon as when Emacs is built on Windows
228 NT, define GNU_ICON in mac/src/Emacs.r. Currently Emacs uses a
229 generic application icon on the Mac OS X. A better looking one is
232 On Mac OS X, installing the emacs files in /usr can cause issues with
233 system sofware updates possibly overwriting the distribution. If this
234 is a concern, as it should be in normal binary distributions, please
235 use /usr/local as the prefix for installation.