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,
62 instead of typing `./configure' above, type
64 ./configure --without-carbon --with-x
67 To use colors in a terminal, put the following lines in the file
68 ~/.termcap and log in again.
72 vt100|vt100-am|vt100am|dec vt100:\
73 :pa#64:Co#8:Sf=\E[3%dm:Sb=\E[4%dm:op=\E[m:AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm:\
74 :do=^J:co#80:li#24:cl=\E[;H\E[2J:sf=2*\ED:\
75 :le=^H:bs:am:cm=5\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=2\E[C:up=2\E[A:\
76 :ce=3\E[K:cd=50\E[J:so=2\E[7m:se=2\E[m:us=2\E[4m:ue=2\E[m:\
77 :md=2\E[1m:mr=2\E[7m:mb=2\E[5m:me=2\E[m:\
78 :rf=/usr/share/tabset/vt100:\
79 :rs=\E>\E[?3l\E[?4l\E[?5l\E[?7h\E[?8h\E[;r\E[0m\E(B\E)B\E[2J:\
80 :ks=\E[?1h\E=:ke=\E[?1l\E>:\
81 :ku=\EOA:kd=\EOB:kr=\EOC:kl=\EOD:kb=^H:\
82 :ho=\E[H:k1=\EOP:k2=\EOQ:k3=\EOR:k4=\EOS:pt:sr=2*\EM:vt#3:xn:\
83 :sc=\E7:rc=\E8:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:
86 To build the `info' files in versions prior to Mac OS X 10.2, you need
87 to install the texinfo software.
89 To install from source, obtain texinfo-4.2.tar.gz from ftp.gnu.org or
90 a mirror. Un-tar it, enter its directory and type
96 The last step may need to be performed as root (sudo make install).
98 You may also like to install ispell, which will allow you to use
99 ispell and flyspell-mode. To install ispell from source, you first
100 need to install GNU textutils.
102 To do so, download textutils-2.0.tar.gz from ftp.gnu.org or a mirror.
103 Un-tar it, enter its directory, type
105 ./configure --host=powerpc-apple-bsd
109 Again, the last step may need to be performed as root. Note that if you
110 run `make check', the test for `pr' will fail.
112 Get and un-tar ispell-3.2.06.tar.gz. Look for it here:
114 http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html
116 Go into its directory, type
118 cp local.h.samp local.h
120 Add a line `#define TERMLIB ""' to the end of local.h.
122 Set the environment variable TMPDIR to an existing directory. For
123 example since `/tmp' exists on my machine and I am using `bash', I
128 Run `make' and `make install', the latter as root.
130 * BUILDING BINARY DISTRIBUTIONS FOR MAC OS X
132 If you are intending to build a binary distribution of Emacs, there is
133 a script that will greatly simplify the process. It is called
134 make-package and it is contained in this directory. It will generate
135 a disc image containing a installer bundle. By default the installer
136 will place the emacs common files in /usr/local/* and the carbon
137 application in /Applications. Typical usage would be
141 After running, an compressed disk image of the installer will be placed
142 in a file called EmacsInstaller.dmg. This file can be then distributed
143 to whomever would like a binary distribution. Here are the common
146 --with-x - Use the X11 GUI instead of the Carbon GUI.
147 --prefix=DIR - Place the common emacs files in the given DIR. The
148 default is /usr/local. See note below if placing
150 --self-contained - Place the common emacs files inside the Emacs.app
151 itself. This makes the application trivial to
152 uninstall and copy between computers.
153 --app-symlink - Use a symlink inside the Application to the
154 $prefix/bin/emacs to reduce disk space. Note, this
155 option may removed in the future.
158 For usage of other options, use the --help option.
160 * BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS 8/9
162 You can use either Metrowerks CodeWarrior Pro 6 or MPW-GM (Aug. 2001)
163 to build Emacs. MPW-GM can be downloaded free of charge from Apple.
165 In either case, you will need MPW-GM to build the make-docfile utility
166 and to generate the doc string file DOC.
168 ### IMPORTANT ### You can use StuffIt Expander to decompress and untar
169 the distribution. However, you *must* set the radio button in the
170 Preferences->Cross Platform->Convert text files to Macintosh format to
171 "Never". Otherwise the compiled Lisp files will be corrupted.
173 (Optional) A subset of the fonts from the GNU intlfonts-1.2
174 distribution converted to NFNT format can be obtained from
176 ftp://mac-emacs.sourceforge.net/pub/mac-emacs/GNU-fonts.smi.bin
178 To build Emacs in the MPW Shell, simply set the directory to
179 ...:emacs:mac: and build the target Emacs of the make file
180 makefile.mpw. I.e., execute the commands
182 make Emacs -f makefile.MPW > Emacs.MakeScript
185 The above commands create an executable that uses the Carbon API. The
186 non-Carbon version can also be created by replacing all the
187 occurrences of `Emacs' above with `NonCarbon'. Not that the
188 non-Carbon version does not support some features such as file
189 dialogs, drag-and-drop, and unicode menus.
191 To build Emacs using CodeWarrior, start up the CodeWarrior IDE, choose
192 File->Import Project... and select the file cw6-mcp.xml. When
193 prompted to save the project, navigate to same directory as the file
194 cw6-mcp.xml, name the project emacs-cw6.mcp, and save it there. Then
195 choose Project->Make. Note that this does not build the DOC file. To
196 do so, use MPW and build the target "Doc" in makefile.MPW.
198 Once built, the Emacs application (Emacs CW or Emacs MPW) can be
199 launched where it is created.
201 To build an optimized version of Emacs in CodeWarrior, change the
202 value in the Emacs Settings->Code Generation->Global Optimization
203 dialog. To build a version for profiling, check the Profiler
204 Information box in the Emacs Settings->Code Generation->PPC Processor
205 dialog and include the Profiler PPC.Lib library.
209 Emacs should build and run on a PowerMac running Mac OS 8.6 - 10.3.
211 You will need around 100 MB of disk space for the source files and
214 It will not run on machines running Mac OS 8/9 with more than 512 MB
215 of physical or virtual memory. It does not have this restriction when
216 it is run under Mac OS X. But the usual 128MB buffer limit of a
217 32-bit Emacs still exists.
219 Under Mac OS 8/9, there is no support for building the LEIM directory.
220 However, it can be built on Mac OS X or another platform and
221 transferred to the Mac.
223 On Mac OS 8/9, to use the same icon as when Emacs is built on Windows
224 NT, define GNU_ICON in mac/src/Emacs.r. Currently Emacs uses a
225 generic application icon on the Mac OS X. A better looking one is
228 On Mac OS X, installing the emacs files in /usr can cause issues with
229 system sofware updates possibly overwriting the distribution. If this
230 is a concern, as it should be in normal binary distributions, please
231 use /usr/local as the prefix for installation.
233 Emacs supports both PowerPC and Intel-based Macintoshes. However,
234 due to the unexec process that Emacs uses to dump core, it is not
235 possible at this time to generate a universal binary that supports both
236 architectures. In addition, Rosetta doesn't appear to work correctly
237 with PowerPC builds of Emacs; you will have to recompile for Intel.
238 Therefore, builds of Emacs are architecture specific.