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   1 * BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS 8/9 AND MAC OS X     -*- outline -*-
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  16 * BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS X
  17
  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
  20 un-tarred.
  21
  22   ./configure --enable-carbon-app
  23   make
  24   make install
  25
  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.
  30
  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>
  34
  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'.
  38
  39 You can type `make bootstrap' instead of `make' to rebuild everything,
  40 including byte-compiling the Lisp files.
  41
  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
  47 existing info files.
  48
  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.,
  54
  55   /Application/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
  56
  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.
  60
  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.
  63
  64   sudo mkdir /usr/X11R6/libstatic
  65   cd /usr/X11R6/libstatic
  66   sudo ln -s ../lib/lib*.a ../lib/X11 .
  67
  68 Instead of typing `./configure' above, type
  69
  70   ./configure --without-carbon --with-x --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/libstatic
  71
  72 To use colors in a terminal, put the following lines in the file
  73 ~/.termcap and log in again.
  74
  75 -----
  76 # added ANSI color
  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:
  89 -----
  90
  91 To build the `info' files in versions prior to Mac OS X 10.2, you need
  92 to install the texinfo software.
  93
  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
  96
  97   ./configure
  98   make
  99   make install
 100
 101 The last step may need to be performed as root (sudo make install).
 102
 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.
 106
 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
 109
 110   ./configure --host=powerpc-apple-bsd
 111   make
 112   make install
 113
 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.
 116
 117 Get and un-tar ispell-3.2.06.tar.gz.  Look for it here:
 118
 119   http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html
 120
 121 Go into its directory, type
 122
 123   cp local.h.samp local.h
 124
 125 Add a line `#define TERMLIB ""' to the end of local.h.
 126
 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
 129 typed
 130
 131   export TMPDIR=/tmp
 132
 133 Run `make' and `make install', the latter as root.
 134
 135 * BUILDING BINARY DISTRIBUTIONS FOR MAC OS X
 136
 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
 143
 144 ./make-package
 145
 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
 149 options to user
 150
 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
 154                     in /usr
 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.
 161
 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
 165
 166 ./make-package --with-x -C,--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/libstatic
 167
 168 For usage of other options, use the --help option.
 169
 170 * BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS 8/9
 171
 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.
 174
 175 In either case, you will need MPW-GM to build the make-docfile utility
 176 and to generate the doc string file DOC.
 177
 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.
 182
 183 (Optional) A subset of the fonts from the GNU intlfonts-1.2
 184 distribution converted to NFNT format can be obtained from
 185
 186   ftp://mac-emacs.sourceforge.net/pub/mac-emacs/GNU-fonts.smi.bin
 187
 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
 191
 192   make Emacs -f makefile.MPW > Emacs.MakeScript
 193   Emacs.MakeScript
 194
 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.
 201
 202 Once built, the Emacs application (Emacs CW or Emacs MPW) can be
 203 launched where it is created.
 204
 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.
 210
 211 * NOTES
 212
 213 Emacs should build and run on a PowerMac running Mac OS 8.6 - 10.2.
 214
 215 You will need around 100 MB of disk space for the source files and
 216 intermediate files.
 217
 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.
 222
 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.
 226
 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
 230 coming soon.
 231
 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.
 236
 237 Enjoy!
 238
 239 Andrew.
 240 <akochoi@mac.com>