I’m currently running Emacs 29 on macOS’s Terminal.app, built from source without a window system.
GNU Emacs 29.0.60 Development version 679f528b953a on emacs-29 branch; build date 2023-03-10.
My current version was build with the following system-configuration-features:
"ACL GMP GNUTLS JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY KQUEUE PDUMPER SQLITE3 THREADS TREE_SITTER XIM ZLIB"
Build & install
First, clone Emacs from Savannah’s git repository to ~/emacs.
By selecting emacs-29 through the --branch flag, git automatically fetches the branch for the upcoming Erlang 29 release:
git clone --branch emacs-29 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs.git ~/emacs
After switching to the ~/emacs directory, run autogen.sh to generate the configure script:
./autogen.sh
Then, run the newly-generated ./configure with the following options1:
--without-ns- Without NextStep (or AppKit) support, needed to build a graphical user interface.
--without-x- No X window support either, which is used as a fallback.
--with-native-compilation- Compile with the Emacs Lisp native compiler
--with-tree-sitter- By default, tree-sitter support is enabled only if the dependency is installed. Turning it on explicitly makes the configuration raise an error when tee-sitter isn’t installed.
./configure --without-x --without-ns --with-native-compilation --with-tree-sitter
Then, run make:
make
Update
If the repository was checked out previously and you don’t want to update the configuration flags, upgrade the installed version of Emacs by switching to ~/emacs, pulling in recent changes, running make and make install:
cd ~/emacs
git checkout emacs-29
git pull origin emacs-29
make
sudo make install
Find more configuration options with .
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