mac/INSTALL

   1 * BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS Classic AND MAC OS X     -*- outline -*-
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  16
  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 You can type `make bootstrap' instead of `make' to rebuild everything,
  37 including byte-compiling the Lisp files.
  38
  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
  44 existing info files.
  45
  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
  51 still meaningful.
  52
  53 To start Emacs as a GUI application from the terminal, the pathname to
  54 the 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 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.
  62
  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:
  66
  67   ./configure --with-x
  68
  69 Note that the Carbon-specific functions mentioned above are not
  70 available on the X11-enabled build.
  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
 163 For usage of other options, use the --help option.
 164
 165 * BUILDING EMACS ON MAC OS Classic
 166
 167 You can use MPW-GM (Aug. 2001) to build Emacs.  MPW-GM can be
 168 downloaded free of charge from Apple.
 169
 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.
 174
 175 (Optional) A subset of the fonts from the GNU intlfonts-1.2
 176 distribution converted to NFNT format can be obtained from
 177
 178   http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/stories/Resources/GNU-Fonts.smi.bin
 179
 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
 183
 184   make Emacs -f makefile.MPW > Emacs.MakeScript
 185   Emacs.MakeScript
 186
 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.
 192
 193 Once built, the Emacs application (Emacs MPW) can be launched where it
 194 is created.
 195
 196 * NOTES
 197
 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.
 200
 201 You will need around 100 MB of disk space for the source files and
 202 intermediate files.
 203
 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.
 207
 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.
 212
 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.
 219
 220 Enjoy!