On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 5:00 PM Yegappan Lakshmanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
I don't use the Mac myself, I'm on Linux; so all I know about Vim on Mac is hearsay, which I got mostly by following the vim_mac newsgroup in addition to vim_use and vim_dev; but you aren't the first one who tried to build a non-MacVim gvim on Mac and failed. Did you get an executable? If you did, have you tried to run it after starting an X11 server? I'm adding a few CC of people who "might" know the Mac better than I do. Best regards, Tony. -- -- 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/CAJkCKXtHc-sVD0XMN9vwO2Kbkh66Umdg3owwsPJ0hYAKG%2BLovg%40mail.gmail.com.
