On 11/7/20 2:36 am, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
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.
Yeah, wow, that stuff is ancient. I didn't even know there was ever a
working Carbon-based GUI for Vim. There is vim-cocoa which was an
alternative to MacVim, but I believe it was poorly maintained, so
although Cocoa is still supported by macOS, you'd have trouble building
and running vim-cocoa. Carbon, being officially discontinued by Apple
now (after being deprecated for a number of years), will be even harder
to build and run.
I guess if there's an Athena-based GUI, it would require
X-Windows/X11/XQuartz, but I'm not aware of that ever running on the
Mac. Indeed, as far as I'm aware, MacVim is currently the only viable
GUI on the Mac.
My suggestion would be to remove the others unless anyone is out there
building recent versions of Vim for legacy OS versions (which is
probably futile, so I doubt it; building an older version of Vim for an
older OS would be a smoother road).
Smiles,
Ben
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