1INSTALLmac.txt - Installation of Vim on Macintosh 2 3This file contains instructions for compiling Vim. If you already have an 4executable version of Vim, you don't need this. 5 6First, make sure you've installed Xcode or CommandLineToots. If not, open a 7terminal and do 8 9 $ make --version 10 11A window pops up instructing you to install the developer tools. 12 13 14---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15Summary 16---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 181 MacOS X 19 1.1. Terminal version 20 1.2. X (Athena, GTK, Motif) or plain text. 21 22MacOS Classic is no longer supported. If you really want it use Vim 6.4. 23 24---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 251 MacOS X 26---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 281.0 Considerations 29 30 Only '/' is supported as path separator. 31 321.1 Terminal version (default) 33 34 You can compile vim with the standard Unix routine: 35 cd .../src 36 make 37 make test 38 sudo make install 39 40 You need at least Xcode 1.5. 41 42 To overrule the architecture do this before running make: 43 44 ./configure --with-mac-arch=intel 45 or 46 ./configure --with-mac-arch=ppc 47 48 491.2 X-Windows 50 51 You must explicitly tell configure to use a GUI. 52 53 cd .../src 54 ./configure --disable-darwin --enable-gui=gtk2 55 make; make install 56 57 NOTE: The following GUI options are possible (but might not work): 58 no (for terminal only), motif, athena, nextaw 59 gtk, gtk2, gnome, gnome2, 60 61 NOTE: You need to first install XFree86 and XDarwin. 62 Please visit http://www.XDarwin.org 63 64------------------------------------------------------ 65