Re: Building "vanilla" emacs on macOS (summary)

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

Alan,

I've modified the post accordingly. Thank you both for your help.

JC

> On Sep 8, 2021, at 8:03, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 03:47:31PM +0530, Pankaj Jangid wrote:
>> Jean-Christophe Helary <lists@traduction-libre.org> writes:
>> 
>>> Since I always forget, I decided to put together a summary of the
>>> process:
>>> https://mac4translators.blogspot.com/2021/09/building-vanilla-emacs-on-macos-with.html
>> 
>> Thanks for documenting it. I would like you to create two sub-sections
>> for essential and recommended brew packages. You have already specified
>> the essential packages without which Emacs won’t build. If you install
>> the following packages then these will be picked up by the ‘configure’
>> script without explicitly passing any options. I have arrived at this
>> list after several iterations.
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> brew install \
>>       libjpeg \
>>       libxpm \
>>       libtiff \
>>       libpng \
>>       librsvg \
>>       jansson \
>>       lcms2 \
>>       giflib
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> In it's default set-up Emacs on macOS won't use libjpeg, libtiff,
> libpng and giflib even if they're installed as those image types are
> all built into NSImage, which is the default. So they're not
> essential.
> 
> I'm not sure about libxpm, I think we have specific code in Emacs
> itself to deal with them... Or maybe I'm thinking of some other X
> bitmap format...?
> 
> -- 
> Alan Third
> 

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