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   1 * BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS Classic AND MAC OS X     -*- outline -*-
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  17 * BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS X
  18
  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
  21 un-tarred.
  22
  23   ./configure --enable-carbon-app
  24   make
  25   make install
  26
  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.
  31
  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>
  35
  36 If you have X Window installed on your Mac and you are building Emacs
  37 to run under Carbon and not X Window, you need to type `./configure
  38 --without-x' instead of `./configure'.
  39
  40 You can type `make bootstrap' instead of `make' to rebuild everything,
  41 including byte-compiling the Lisp files.
  42
  43 If you are compiling on Mac OS X versions before 10.2 and have not
  44 installed the GNU texinfo package on your system, the build will
  45 complain that makeinfo cannot be found.  Instructions for installing the
  46 GNU texinfo package are given below.  Alternatively, you can type `make
  47 -k' instead of `make' and safely ignore the error messages and use the
  48 existing info files.
  49
  50 After Emacs is installed, you can run it by typing `emacs -nw' from a
  51 terminal (make sure your path contains /usr/local/bin) or by
  52 double-clicking on /Applications/Emacs.app in the Finder.  To start
  53 Emacs as a GUI application from the terminal, the pathname to the
  54 executable in the bundle, i.e.,
  55
  56   /Application/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
  57
  58 must be typed to the shell to enable Emacs to locate its resources
  59 correctly.  You may want to create a symlink or alias to this path to
  60 quickly access both the terminal and GUI versions.
  61
  62 If you are building Emacs to run on Mac OS X and X Window,
  63 instead of typing `./configure' above, type
  64
  65   ./configure --without-carbon --with-x
  66
  67
  68 To use colors in a terminal, put the following lines in the file
  69 ~/.termcap and log in again.
  70
  71 -----
  72 # added ANSI color
  73 vt100|vt100-am|vt100am|dec vt100:\
  74     :pa#64:Co#8:Sf=\E[3%dm:Sb=\E[4%dm:op=\E[m:AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm:\
  75     :do=^J:co#80:li#24:cl=\E[;H\E[2J:sf=2*\ED:\
  76     :le=^H:bs:am:cm=5\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=2\E[C:up=2\E[A:\
  77     :ce=3\E[K:cd=50\E[J:so=2\E[7m:se=2\E[m:us=2\E[4m:ue=2\E[m:\
  78     :md=2\E[1m:mr=2\E[7m:mb=2\E[5m:me=2\E[m:\
  79     :rf=/usr/share/tabset/vt100:\
  80     :rs=\E>\E[?3l\E[?4l\E[?5l\E[?7h\E[?8h\E[;r\E[0m\E(B\E)B\E[2J:\
  81     :ks=\E[?1h\E=:ke=\E[?1l\E>:\
  82     :ku=\EOA:kd=\EOB:kr=\EOC:kl=\EOD:kb=^H:\
  83     :ho=\E[H:k1=\EOP:k2=\EOQ:k3=\EOR:k4=\EOS:pt:sr=2*\EM:vt#3:xn:\
  84     :sc=\E7:rc=\E8:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:
  85 -----
  86
  87 To build the `info' files in versions prior to Mac OS X 10.2, you need
  88 to install the texinfo software.
  89
  90 To install from source, obtain texinfo-4.2.tar.gz from ftp.gnu.org or
  91 a mirror.  Un-tar it, enter its directory and type
  92
  93   ./configure
  94   make
  95   make install
  96
  97 The last step may need to be performed as root (sudo make install).
  98
  99 You may also like to install ispell, which will allow you to use
 100 ispell and flyspell-mode.  To install ispell from source, you first
 101 need to install GNU textutils.
 102
 103 To do so, download textutils-2.0.tar.gz from ftp.gnu.org or a mirror.
 104 Un-tar it, enter its directory, type
 105
 106   ./configure --host=powerpc-apple-bsd
 107   make
 108   make install
 109
 110 Again, the last step may need to be performed as root.  Note that if you
 111 run `make check', the test for `pr' will fail.
 112
 113 Get and un-tar ispell-3.2.06.tar.gz.  Look for it here:
 114
 115   http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html
 116
 117 Go into its directory, type
 118
 119   cp local.h.samp local.h
 120
 121 Add a line `#define TERMLIB ""' to the end of local.h.
 122
 123 Set the environment variable TMPDIR to an existing directory.  For
 124 example since `/tmp' exists on my machine and I am using `bash', I
 125 typed
 126
 127   export TMPDIR=/tmp
 128
 129 Run `make' and `make install', the latter as root.
 130
 131 * BUILDING BINARY DISTRIBUTIONS FOR MAC OS X
 132
 133 If you are intending to build a binary distribution of Emacs, there is
 134 a script that will greatly simplify the process.  It is called
 135 make-package and it is contained in this directory.  It will generate
 136 a disc image containing a installer bundle.  By default the installer
 137 will place the emacs common files in /usr/local/* and the carbon
 138 application in /Applications.  Typical usage would be
 139
 140 ./make-package
 141
 142 After running, an compressed disk image of the installer will be placed
 143 in a file called EmacsInstaller.dmg.  This file can be then distributed
 144 to whomever would like a binary distribution.  Here are the common
 145 options to user
 146
 147 --with-x         -  Use the X11 GUI instead of the Carbon GUI.
 148 --prefix=DIR     -  Place the common emacs files in the given DIR.  The
 149                     default is /usr/local.  See note below if placing
 150                     in /usr
 151 --self-contained -  Place the common emacs files inside the Emacs.app
 152                     itself.  This makes the application trivial to
 153                     uninstall and copy between computers.
 154 --app-symlink    -  Use a symlink inside the Application to the
 155                     $prefix/bin/emacs to reduce disk space.  Note, this
 156                     option may removed in the future.
 157
 158
 159 For usage of other options, use the --help option.
 160
 161 * BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS Classic
 162
 163 You can use MPW-GM (Aug. 2001) to build Emacs.  MPW-GM can be
 164 downloaded free of charge from Apple.
 165
 166 ### IMPORTANT ### You can use StuffIt Expander to decompress and untar
 167 the distribution.  However, you *must* set the radio button in the
 168 Preferences->Cross Platform->Convert text files to Macintosh format to
 169 "Never".  Otherwise the compiled Lisp files will be corrupted.
 170
 171 (Optional) A subset of the fonts from the GNU intlfonts-1.2
 172 distribution converted to NFNT format can be obtained from
 173
 174   http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/stories/Resources/GNU-Fonts.smi.bin
 175
 176 To build Emacs in the MPW Shell, simply set the directory to
 177 ...:emacs:mac: and build the target Emacs of the make file
 178 makefile.MPW.  I.e., execute the commands
 179
 180   make Emacs -f makefile.MPW > Emacs.MakeScript
 181   Emacs.MakeScript
 182
 183 The above commands create an executable that uses the Carbon API.
 184 The non-Carbon version can also be created by replacing all the
 185 occurrences of `Emacs' above with `NonCarbon'.  Not that the
 186 non-Carbon version does not support some features such as file
 187 dialogs, drag-and-drop, and Unicode menus.
 188
 189 Once built, the Emacs application (Emacs MPW) can be launched where it
 190 is created.
 191
 192 * NOTES
 193
 194 Emacs should build and run on a PowerMac running Mac OS 8.6 - 9.2 (but
 195 only tested on 9.2.2), and Mac OS X 10.1 - 10.4.
 196
 197 You will need around 100 MB of disk space for the source files and
 198 intermediate files.
 199
 200 Under Mac OS Classic, there is no support for building the LEIM
 201 directory.  However, it can be built on Mac OS X or another platform
 202 and transferred to the Mac.
 203
 204 On Mac OS X, installing the emacs files in /usr can cause issues with
 205 system software updates possibly overwriting the distribution.  If this
 206 is a concern, as it should be in normal binary distributions, please
 207 use /usr/local as the prefix for installation.
 208
 209 Emacs supports both PowerPC and Intel-based Macintoshes.  However,
 210 due to the unexec process that Emacs uses to dump core, it is not
 211 possible at this time to generate a universal binary that supports both
 212 architectures.  In addition, Rosetta doesn't appear to work correctly
 213 with PowerPC builds of Emacs; you will have to recompile for Intel.
 214 Therefore, builds of Emacs are architecture specific.
 215
 216 Enjoy!