Instructions for building Emacs with homebrew

Instructions for building Emacs with homebrew

[Arash Esbati]

Hi all,

I have a MacBook Air M2 and plan to build Emacs with tools provided by
homebrew.  Would it be useful to write down this procedure like what
Emacs has under nt/INSTALL.W64, say nextstep/INSTALL.homebrew?

Best, Arash

Re: Instructions for building Emacs with homebrew

[Arash Esbati]

Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com> writes:

> I don't know if you've seen this script, and the details that it has:
>
> - https://github.com/jimeh/build-emacs-for-macos
>
> I've been using this to build my version of Emacs for a while now on an
> M1, and usually it 'just works'.

Thanks for your message and sorry for my late response.  I did some
research and found the script above and also others like:

  • https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus

and a lot of blog entries like:

  • https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2020/08/02/emacs-on-macos-for-linux-peeps
  • https://andersmurphy.com/2021/11/14/emacs-building-from-source-on-macos.html

And I agree with Lars who writes:

  So I wondered what you'd have to do to build Emacs under Macos, and
  ...  I found a bunch of people talking about how easy it is, but nobody
  actually, like, says how to do it.

Hence my question about a canonical recipe for building Emacs under
macOS.  And I don't want to use a patched version of Emacs, that would
make submitting bug reports more complicated.  So I will start building
Emacs with homebrew and see how far I get.

Best, Arash