Alan, I recently figured out how to compile Vim on a Mac from source, so here is the method I used. I too am fairly new at this, so if any Mac users can improve on my instructions, feel free to do so.
I obtained the Vim sources through Subversion (I keep my source code downloads in ~/Source). You may need to install a Subversion client on your system to get this to work. Open Terminal and enter the following commands (assuming ~/Source already exists): cd ~/Source svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vim/vim7 You may get prompted to accept the certificate after the second command ... I usually hit 't' to accept it temporarily. If all goes well, you should end up with a new vim7 directory in ~/Source. I build Vim with Python and Ruby support and the huge feature set. You need to have both languages installed on your system to build Vim this way. This is what I would enter next: cd vim7/src ./configure --enable-pythoninterp --enable-rubyinterp --with-features=huge make make test If you don't need support for Python and Ruby, just omit those options from the ./configure line above. If you need support for other languages like Perl, see the Makefile in the vim7/src directory for additional options. If all goes well at this point, you can enter the following command to install Vim in the /Applications folder: make install This should move Vim.app to /Applications, and you can launch it from there. When new patches come out, I just do the following to update my copy of Vim: cd ~/Source/vim7 svn update cd src make make test make install Hope this helps! Trev Alan G Isaac wrote: > > Would you mind outlining the steps you took for someone who > is making the same transition but is not used to compiling > their own apps? (I have XCode installed.) > > Thank you, > Alan Isaac > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Mac-Questions-tf2937782.html#a8402869 Sent from the Vim - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
