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| author | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> | 2016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200 |
| commit | d07969093a9b3051511c478d71c36de6fc33c0d6 (patch) | |
| tree | 0bc14088240092381709c7729fe7d71f5903947c /READMEdir | |
| parent | 3c4ebeba17399e4ef33d004c269e667f696f0eb6 (diff) | |
| download | vim-git-d07969093a9b3051511c478d71c36de6fc33c0d6.tar.gz | |
Updated runtime files.
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diff --git a/READMEdir/README_mac.txt b/READMEdir/README_mac.txt index 82279ae89..cdef1a26b 100644 --- a/READMEdir/README_mac.txt +++ b/READMEdir/README_mac.txt @@ -4,5 +4,25 @@ This file explains the installation of Vim on Macintosh systems. See "README.txt" for general information about Vim. -Sorry, this text still needs to be written! +To build from sources, like on Unix +1. Get the build tools: "clang" and "make". These can be installed with the + "CommandLineTools" package. If you don't have one, do + xcode-select --install + Just like for any software development with OS X. + +2. Get the source code. Best is to use git (which you need to install first), + see http://www.vim.org/git.php + Or you can download and unpack the Unix tar archive, see + http://www.vim.org/download.php + +3. Go to the top directory of the source tree, do + make + sudo make install + A newly built vim will be installed under "/usr/local". + + +If you can't manage to make this work, there is a fallback using Homebrew: + +1. Install Homebrew from http://brew.sh/ +2. Install latest Vim with: brew install vim |