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. 38 391.2 X-Windows or Plain Text 40 41 If you do not want the Carbon interface, you must explicitly tell 42 configure to use a different GUI. 43 44 cd .. 45 ./configure --enable-gui=gtk2 46 make; make install 47 48 NOTE: The following GUI options are supported: 49 no (for text), motif, athena, nextaw 50 gtk, gtk2, gnome, gnome2, 51 52 NOTE: You need to first install XFree86 and XDarwin. 53 Please visit http://www.XDarwin.org 54 55------------------------------------------------------ 56