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Emacs 25.3 Built for MacOS High Sierra

Version: Mac OS 10.13.6

Production: Emacs 25.3

Requirements

• Before you start, you need a few dependencies:
  • Xcode (free in the Mac App Store).
  • Autoconf and Automake. The easiest way to use Homebrew via brew install autoconf automake.
  • makeinfo (part of the Texinfo suite). Apple ships makeinfo, but at some point the system version fell below the minimum version Emacs needs to build.

Homebrew

makeinfo can also be installed from Homebrew:

brew install texinfo

But before building Emacs, you need to get it into your $PATH ahead of /usr/bin/makeinfo The following exports should be added to your bashrc or bash_profile.

export PATH=/usr/local/opt/texinfo/bin:$PATH
export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/texinfo/lib

This package is needed if you want the --with-gnutls flag to work correctly when you build emacs.
Gnutls allows for the use of the package-list-packages function in emacs.

brew install gnutls

Building Emacs

I Chose to store my build folder in my local Applications folder. Feel free to store where ever is convenient for you.

/Users/jared3701/Applications/emacs/

Once you have the prerequisites squared away, the build is the same as it’s been for a while. Get the source:

cd /Users/jared3701/Applications/
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
cd emacs

Checkout the emacs-25 branch (master is the development branch):

git checkout emacs-25

Configuration Settings:
These are the configuration settings that I used for this project.

• with-ns
  • This determines that it will be build in the nextstep folder.
• with-gnutls
  • This was needed to get the emacs package manager working.
• with-imagemagick

Configure and compile (make install build the application bundle, it doesn’t actually install anything):

make configure
./configure  --with-ns --with-gnutls --with-imagemagick
make install

Deployed Emacs 25.3

Deployment:

cd /Users/jared3701/Applications/
mkdir emacs-25.3
cd emacs-25.3
rsync -avP /Users/jared3701/Applications/emacs/nextstep/Emacs.app /Users/jared3701/Applications/emacs-25.3/

Helpful Links

https://stuff-things.net/2018/01/30/building-emacs-25-on-macos-high-sierra/

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Bleeding Edge: Emacs 25.3 with xwidget

Why?

The purpose of building Emacs with xwidget is to make it possible to use the command "xwidget-webkit-browse-url". This command allows users to open web-pages inside of Emacs without ever having to leave Emacs. I have included configuration settings for navigating web-pages in my init.el file included in this Github repository.

Requirements

Before starting it is very important to make sure that both your Homebrew and MacPort installations are fully updated. As they will be needed for the installation of the following packages: autoconf, automake, gtk3, & webkitgtk.

Homebrew

makeinfo can also be installed from Homebrew:

brew install texinfo

But before building Emacs, you need to get it into your $PATH ahead of /usr/bin/makeinfo The following exports should be added to your bashrc or bash_profile.

export PATH=/usr/local/opt/texinfo/bin:$PATH
export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/texinfo/lib

This package is needed if you want the --with-gnutls flag to work correctly when you build emacs.
Gnutls allows for the use of the package-list-packages function in emacs.

brew install gnutls

This package is needed for Emacs to build with the flag "--with-xwidget".

brew install gtk+3

MacPorts

This package is also needed for Emacs to build with the flag "--with-xwidget".

port install webkit-gtk3

Building Emacs

I Chose to store my build path local Applications folder. Feel free to store where ever is convenient for you.

/Users/jared3701/Applications/emacs/

Once you have the prerequisites squared away, the build is the same as it’s been for a while. Get the source:

cd /Users/jared3701/Applications/
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git
cd emacs

Checkout the emacs-25 branch (master is the development branch):

git checkout emacs-25

Configuration Settings:
These are the configuration settings that I used for this project.

./autogen.sh all
./configure --with-xwidgets --without-ns --with-gnutls --with-imagemagick --without-dbus --with-x
make install

Unless you specify a path emacs will be installed in the following location when using "make install" with the following configuration.

/usr/local/bin/

XQuartz

If running emacs from /usr/local/bin/ starts in no window mode then you must start XQuartz and point it to emacs.

XQuartz

Inside of XQuartz run the 'Add Item' command.

Applicaion -> Customize. -> Add Item

The new item requires a Name and Command to be associated with it.

Name: emacs
Command: /usr/local/bin/emacs

I was experiencing errors with C-space for the Mark set and found that it could be fixed from:

XQuartz -> Preferences -> Input
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Uncheck -> Enable key equivalents under X11
Check   -> Follow system keyboard layout

If Built with the flag "--with-dbus" or don't use the flag "--without-dbus" you might get the following error. Never less in my experiences a dbus error can be solved with the below commands.

port notes dbus

This is the output of the command "port notes dbus".

Jareds-MacBook-Pro-2:bin jared3701$ port notes dbus
dbus has the following notes:
  Startup items (named 'dbus-system, dbus-session') have been generated that will aid in starting dbus with launchd. They are disabled
  by default. Execute the following command to start them, and to cause them to launch at startup:

      sudo port load dbus

Running sudo port load dbus starts the dbus and fixes the error.

sudo port load dbus

This is the output of the command "sudo port load dbus".

Jareds-MacBook-Pro-2:bin jared3701$ sudo port load dbus
Password:
--->  Loading startupitem 'dbus-system' for dbus
--->  Loading startupitem 'dbus-session' for dbus

Demonstration

Helpful Links

Building Emacs

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24213842/webkit-not-found-on-osx https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/25037/compile-emacs-with-xwidget-under-osx https://jiegec.me/programming/2016/02/18/building-emacs-git-version-with-xwidgets-and-modules-in-archlinux/ https://github.com/veshboo/emacs

Using xwidget

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4srze9/watching_youtube_inside_emacs_25/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2YdjpWJJHs

XQuartz

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37826094/xt-error-cant-open-display-if-using-default-display https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/21285/set-mark-command-c-spc-not-recognised-broken

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