Compiling Emacs on Snow Leopard

Question

Has anyone successfully compiled the latest CVS version of Emacs on Snow Leopard? If so, could you provide instructions? I was using the following on Leopard, and it worked fine:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co emacs
cd emacs
./configure --enable-carbon-app --with-ns --with-jpeg=no --with-gif=no \
            --with-tiff=no
make bootstrap
make
sudo make install
sudo cp -r nextstep/Emacs.app /Applications/Emacs.app

but this no longer works on Snow Leopard.

Answer 1

To answer my own question, there are pre-build binaries of Emacs that work on Snow Leopard, such as http://emacsformacosx.com/

The patches that are available in various places only work for specific CVS revisions most of the time.

Answer 2

In the absence of any other information, check out this thread which details Emacs/Snow Leopard problems and their ultimate resolution.

Answer 3

You may also want to look at Aquamacs, which currently has a beta for the latest Emacs and offers somewhat better OS X integration than the default build.

Answer 4

You need to add one option in your configure step:

./configure --with-ns CC='gcc -arch i386' --with-jpeg=no --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no

emacs has not been not released yet for the mac 64 bit architecture

--enable-carbon-app is also unnecessary now