Hi Tony, On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 7:37 AM Tony Mechelynck < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 3:41 AM Yegappan Lakshmanan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Is anyone able to successfully build GUI Vim on MacOS? > > > > I am not able to build Vim with GUI enabled on MacOS. I tried athena and > carbon. > > I think the build instructions in src/INSTALLmac.txt file should be > updated. > > > > Note that I am able to successfully build MacVim ( > https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim) > > with GUI support. > > > > Thanks, > > Yegappan > > IIUC MacVim is _the_ version of Vim with "native Mac" GUI support. It > /may/ be possible to build other versions of gvim for OSX _with X11_ > which is not the default; but AFAIK such versions have received little > or no testing ever since MacVim came into being, their GUI may or may > not still be usable. OTOH the procedure for building Vim without GUI > should be the same, or very similar, on OSX and on other Unix-like > platforms. > > Thanks for the reply. I do regularly build and use the TUI version of Vim on MacOS (this is the system I use for Vim development). If nobody is able to build or use the GUI version on Mac, then we should remove that code (CarbonGUI). Regards, Yegappan -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAAW7x7%3DvkAsAUtmOzaLgejDUr9JvqyWiQCHiJ6o3CMfO8us%3DwQ%40mail.gmail.com.
