1 * BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS Classic AND MAC OS X -*- outline -*-
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17 * BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS X
19 You should be able to build Emacs on Mac OS X by typing the following
20 commands at the top-level directory after the source distribution is
23 ./configure --enable-carbon-app
27 The last step may fail if you do not have permissions to install. If
28 you try to install into /usr (with ./configure --prefix=/usr), then you
29 must install as root using the sudo command. However, it is not
30 recommended; see the notes section below for more details.
32 The --enable-carbon-app specifies that the Carbon GUI application
33 should be installed into /Application. If you want it to install in a
34 different location, specify --enable-carbon-app=<mydir>
36 You can type `make bootstrap' instead of `make' to rebuild everything,
37 including byte-compiling the Lisp files.
39 If you are compiling on Mac OS X versions before 10.2 and have not
40 installed the GNU texinfo package on your system, the build will
41 complain that makeinfo cannot be found. Instructions for installing the
42 GNU texinfo package are given below. Alternatively, you can type `make
43 -k' instead of `make' and safely ignore the error messages and use the
46 After Emacs is installed, you can run a text-only terminal version by
47 typing `emacs' from a terminal (make sure your path contains
48 /usr/local/bin) or a GUI application by double-clicking on
49 /Applications/Emacs.app in the Finder. Even in the terminal version,
50 some Carbon-specific functions such as `mac-set-file-creator' are
53 To start Emacs as a GUI application from the terminal, the pathname to
54 the executable in the bundle, i.e.,
56 /Application/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
58 must be typed to the shell to enable Emacs to locate its resources
59 correctly. You may want to create an alias to this path to quickly
60 access both the terminal and GUI versions. You can specify some
61 standard Emacs options when invoking Emacs in this way.
63 Emacs on Mac OS X is not configured to use X11 unless either it is
64 requested or the use of Carbon is disabled explicitly. So, if you are
65 building Emacs to run on X Window System, you need to specify like:
69 Note that the Carbon-specific functions mentioned above are not
70 available on the X11-enabled build.
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.
163 For usage of other options, use the --help option.
165 * BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS Classic
167 You can use MPW-GM (Aug. 2001) to build Emacs. MPW-GM can be
168 downloaded free of charge from Apple.
170 ### IMPORTANT ### You can use StuffIt Expander to decompress and untar
171 the distribution. However, you *must* set the radio button in the
172 Preferences->Cross Platform->Convert text files to Macintosh format to
173 "Never". Otherwise the compiled Lisp files will be corrupted.
175 (Optional) A subset of the fonts from the GNU intlfonts-1.2
176 distribution converted to NFNT format can be obtained from
178 http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/stories/Resources/GNU-Fonts.smi.bin
180 To build Emacs in the MPW Shell, simply set the directory to
181 ...:emacs:mac: and build the target Emacs of the make file
182 makefile.MPW. I.e., execute the commands
184 make Emacs -f makefile.MPW > Emacs.MakeScript
187 The above commands create an executable that uses the Carbon API.
188 The non-Carbon version can also be created by replacing all the
189 occurrences of `Emacs' above with `NonCarbon'. Not that the
190 non-Carbon version does not support some features such as file
191 dialogs, drag-and-drop, and Unicode menus.
193 Once built, the Emacs application (Emacs MPW) can be launched where it
198 Emacs should build and run on a PowerMac running Mac OS 8.6 - 9.2 (but
199 only tested on 9.2.2), and Mac OS X 10.1 - 10.4.
201 You will need around 100 MB of disk space for the source files and
204 Under Mac OS Classic, there is no support for building the LEIM
205 directory. However, it can be built on Mac OS X or another platform
206 and transferred to the Mac.
208 On Mac OS X, installing the emacs files in /usr can cause issues with
209 system software updates possibly overwriting the distribution. If this
210 is a concern, as it should be in normal binary distributions, please
211 use /usr/local as the prefix for installation.
213 Emacs supports both PowerPC and Intel-based Macintoshes. However,
214 due to the unexec process that Emacs uses to dump core, it is not
215 possible at this time to generate a universal binary that supports both
216 architectures. In addition, Rosetta doesn't appear to work correctly
217 with PowerPC builds of Emacs; you will have to recompile for Intel.
218 Therefore, builds of Emacs are architecture specific.