INSTALLmac.txt - Installation of Vim on Macintosh This file contains instructions for compiling Vim. If you already have an executable version of Vim, you don't need this. First, make sure you've installed Xcode or CommandLineTools. If not, open a terminal and do $ make --version A window pops up instructing you to install the developer tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 MacOS X 1.1. Terminal version 1.2. X (Athena, GTK, Motif) or plain text. MacOS Classic is no longer supported. If you really want it use Vim 6.4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 MacOS X ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.0 Considerations Only '/' is supported as path separator. 1.1 Terminal version (default) You can compile vim with the standard Unix routine: cd .../src make make test sudo make install You need at least Xcode 1.5. To overrule the architecture do this before running make: ./configure --with-mac-arch=intel or ./configure --with-mac-arch=ppc 1.2 X-Windows You must explicitly tell configure to use a GUI. cd .../src ./configure --disable-darwin --enable-gui=gtk2 make; make install NOTE: The following GUI options are possible (but might not work): no (for terminal only), motif, athena, nextaw gtk, gtk2, gnome, gnome2, NOTE: You need to first install XFree86 and XDarwin. Please visit http://www.XDarwin.org ------------------------------------------------------