image support of Carbon Emacs

image support of Carbon Emacs

[Masashi Ito]

Hello, everyone.

I recently started using Emacs and was fascinated by it. Thanks very much 
for everyone developing this varsatile editor! (I wish I started using 
Emacs much earlier...)

Let me ask some question about Carbon Emacs. If my question is something 
quite silly, please forgive me (I'm a Unix neophite). Does Carbon Emacs (on 
Mac OS X) support image?

In fact, I wanted to use (or try to use) preview-latex with the Emacs I 
built on June 11, but when I tried to configure it, it said I need Emacs 
that supports image. And I figured out that in order to do that I need 
libpng and zlib, which I didn't have (unless they came along with something 
else). Then, I checked config.log (created when I built the Carbon Emacs I 
am using now) just to make sure that configure then said it couldn't find 
libpng nor zlib so that when I build Emacs next time with the necessary 
libraries (downloaded probably through Fink), I will be able to check if 
'configure' indeed find them at that time. But I couldn't find any mention 
of libpng or zlib in the log. So, I wondered if Carbon Emacs doesn't 
support that feature (yet)... In other words, I guessed that the 
'--with-carbon --without-x' options of the 'configure' let it skip the 
check on the libraries.

Am I correct? If so, I might have to defect to X Window... :-)

Thank you in advance,

Masashi Ito

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Re: image support of Carbon Emacs

[Andrew Choi]

Masashi Ito <mi61@columbia.edu> writes:

> [...] Does Carbon Emacs (on Mac OS X) support image?

No.  Image support has not been implemented in Emacs when configured and
built with `--with-carbon' option.