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 6An alternate way of building that Benji Fisher uses can be found here: 7 8 http://macvim.swdev.org/OSX/#Developers 9 10---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11Summary 12---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 141 MacOS X 15 1.1. Carbon interface 16 1.2. X (Athena, GTK, Motif) or plain text. 17 18MacOS Classic is no longer supported. If you really want it use Vim 6.4. 19 20---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 211 MacOS X 22---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23 241.0 Considerations 25 26 Only '/' supported as path separator. 27 281.1 Carbon interface (default) 29 30 You can compile vim with the standard Unix routine: 31 cd .. 32 ./configure 33 make; make install 34 35 This will create a working Vim.app application bundle in the src 36 directory. You can move this bundle (the Vim.app directory) anywhere 37 you want, for example, /Applications. 38 39 You need at least Xcode 1.5 to compile Vim 7.0. 40 41 421.2 X-Windows or Plain Text 43 44 If you do not want the Carbon interface, you must explicitly tell 45 configure to use a different GUI. 46 47 cd .. 48 ./configure --disable-darwin --enable-gui=gtk2 49 make; make install 50 51 NOTE: The following GUI options are supported: 52 no (for text), motif, athena, nextaw 53 gtk, gtk2, gnome, gnome2, 54 55 NOTE: You need to first install XFree86 and XDarwin. 56 Please visit http://www.XDarwin.org 57 58------------------------------------------------------ 59