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   1 * BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS 8/9 AND MAC OS X     -*- outline -*-
   2
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  15
  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,
  62 instead of typing `./configure' above, type
  63
  64   ./configure --without-carbon --with-x
  65
  66
  67 To use colors in a terminal, put the following lines in the file
  68 ~/.termcap and log in again.
  69
  70 -----
  71 # added ANSI color
  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:
  84 -----
  85
  86 To build the `info' files in versions prior to Mac OS X 10.2, you need
  87 to install the texinfo software.
  88
  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
  91
  92   ./configure
  93   make
  94   make install
  95
  96 The last step may need to be performed as root (sudo make install).
  97
  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.
 101
 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
 104
 105   ./configure --host=powerpc-apple-bsd
 106   make
 107   make install
 108
 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.
 111
 112 Get and un-tar ispell-3.2.06.tar.gz.  Look for it here:
 113
 114   http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html
 115
 116 Go into its directory, type
 117
 118   cp local.h.samp local.h
 119
 120 Add a line `#define TERMLIB ""' to the end of local.h.
 121
 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
 124 typed
 125
 126   export TMPDIR=/tmp
 127
 128 Run `make' and `make install', the latter as root.
 129
 130 * BUILDING BINARY DISTRIBUTIONS FOR MAC OS X
 131
 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
 138
 139 ./make-package
 140
 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
 144 options to user
 145
 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
 149                     in /usr
 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.
 156
 157
 158 For usage of other options, use the --help option.
 159
 160 * BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS 8/9
 161
 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.
 164
 165 In either case, you will need MPW-GM to build the make-docfile utility
 166 and to generate the doc string file DOC.
 167
 168 ### IMPORTANT ### You can use StuffIf 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.
 172
 173 (Optional) A subset of the fonts from the GNU intlfonts-1.2
 174 distribution converted to NFNT format can be obtained from
 175
 176   ftp://mac-emacs.sourceforge.net/pub/mac-emacs/GNU-fonts.smi.bin
 177
 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
 181
 182   make Emacs -f makefile.MPW > Emacs.MakeScript
 183   Emacs.MakeScript
 184
 185 To build Emacs using CodeWarrior, start up the CodeWarrior IDE, choose
 186 File->Import Project...  and select the file cw6-mcp.xml.  When
 187 prompted to save the project, navigate to same directory as the file
 188 cw6-mcp.xml, name the project emacs-cw6.mcp, and save it there.  Then
 189 choose Project->Make.  Note that this does not build the DOC file.  To
 190 do so, use MPW and build the target "Doc" in makefile.MPW.
 191
 192 Once built, the Emacs application (Emacs CW or Emacs MPW) can be
 193 launched where it is created.
 194
 195 To build an optimized version of Emacs in CodeWarrior, change the
 196 value in the Emacs Settings->Code Generation->Global Optimization
 197 dialog.  To build a version for profiling, check the Profiler
 198 Information box in the Emacs Settings->Code Generation->PPC Processor
 199 dialog and include the Profiler PPC.Lib library.
 200
 201 * NOTES
 202
 203 Emacs should build and run on a PowerMac running Mac OS 8.6 - 10.2.
 204
 205 You will need around 100 MB of disk space for the source files and
 206 intermediate files.
 207
 208 It will not run on machines running Mac OS 8/9 with more than 512 MB
 209 of physical or virtual memory.  It does not have this restriction when
 210 it is run under Mac OS X.  But the usual 128MB buffer limit of a
 211 32-bit Emacs still exists.
 212
 213 Under Mac OS 8/9, there is no support for building the LEIM directory.
 214 However, it can be built on Mac OS X or another platform and
 215 transferred to the Mac.
 216
 217 On Mac OS 8/9, to use the same icon as when Emacs is built on Windows
 218 NT, define GNU_ICON in mac/src/Emacs.r.  Currently Emacs uses a
 219 generic application icon on the Mac OS X.  A better looking one is
 220 coming soon.
 221
 222 On Mac OS X, installing the emacs files in /usr can cause issues with
 223 system sofware updates possibly overwriting the distribution.  If this
 224 is a concern, as it should be in normal binary distributions, please
 225 use /usr/local as the prefix for installation.
 226
 227 Enjoy!
 228
 229 Andrew.
 230 <akochoi@mac.com>