Questions tagged [build]
Building Emacs from source
56 questions
0
votes
1
answer
319
views
Correct gtk3 version build emacs 29.2 from source with gtk3 and xwidgets support
I use linux 5.4.0-150-generic #167~18.04.1-Ubuntu with libgtk-3-0:amd64 3.22.30-1ubuntu4 What is the correct Gtk3 version to get xwidgets running without warnings?
when I run the build configuration (...
- 135
1
vote
1
answer
375
views
How to build Emacs29 with tree-sitter without sudo
Here are the commands I'm running
First I install tree-sitter
make PREFIX=${HOME}/.tree-sitter
make PREFIX=${HOME}/.tree-sitter install
This populates ~/.tree-sitter directory
├── include
│ └── ...
- 241
1
vote
0
answers
119
views
Can I run two different builds of the same Emacs version?
My Linux distribution ships out Emacs version 28.2, with a particular build configuration, and I currently use that.
However, it was not compiled with xwidget support, and so I want to build 28.2 from ...
- 588
0
votes
0
answers
170
views
How can I build the native aarch64 Emacs application for Android on a x86_64 system?
I'm struggling to build Emacs from the feature/android branch. I tried running the ./configure script this way:
ANDROIDJAR=~/Android/platforms/android-33-ext4/android.jar
BUILDTOOLS=~/Android/build-...
- 151
0
votes
2
answers
1k
views
Using Emacs.app when building from source (Mac OS)
I've built Emacs from source on MacOS (12.4, M1) and it works when I execute the binary from /usr/local/bin/emacs, but I can't open Emacs from Emacs.app.
For example:
mv ~/emacs/nextstep/Emacs.app /...
- 123
0
votes
1
answer
82
views
Building emacs for Alpine Linux info/dir target failure
I am trying to build emacs for Alpine Linux by following the instructions.
After installing the relevant packages I run
configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid --with-mailutils --enable-gcc-warnings --with-...
- 1
1
vote
1
answer
117
views
Cannot access symbols in treesit.c when building and running feature/tree-sitter
I'm trying out the feature branch feature/tree-sitter available on remote https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs.git.
Build and startup all works fine. However, the functions defined in the Emacs ...
- 527
0
votes
1
answer
160
views
What is the difference between pdump and pbootstrap?
I recently built emacs from the source code and I have some questions about portable dump.
Building process generates bootstrap-emacs.pdmp and emacs.pdmp successively in the last part of building. ...
1
vote
0
answers
313
views
Getting an error when running the Emacs 28.1 binary that I built from source (--with-native-compilation)
When building Emacs 27.2 from source, I use the following config:
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/home/user/emacs --bindir=/home/user/bin \
--with-json --with-gif --with-jpeg --with-png --with-...
- 123
2
votes
1
answer
157
views
How do I build only the Emacs C source files and not the Elisp source files in the Emacs repository?
Running the default procedure:
~/emacs $ mkdir build
~/emacs $ cd build
~/emacs/build $ ../configure
~/emacs/build $ make
Results in building both the C source files and the Elisp source files.
What ...
- 630
1
vote
0
answers
93
views
Can't launch emacs from outside bin directory
I'm building emacs from source (the feature/native-comp branch) on Ubuntu inside WSL 2. This was working a couple weeks ago, but today it stopped (I hadn't used it in some time though).
I've cloned ...
- 133
3
votes
0
answers
1k
views
Compiling gccemacs (Emacs 28) from source. To bootstrap or not to bootstrap?
With the following build script on Big Sur + homebrew, I get horribly long compile times when using make bootstrap as opposed to simply make on gccemacs.
I've read the Makefile in the src directory - ...
- 33
0
votes
1
answer
124
views
Debuggable emacs and vanilla emacs binaries
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.
I would like to build an emacs binary for general usage (no debug symbols) and
another emacs binary (when something goes wrong). The build is pretty straight-forward, but I ...
- 33
0
votes
1
answer
226
views
Building Emacs from source doesn't generate a native application on macOS Catalina
I've been trying to build Emacs 28 from source on my MacBook Pro running macOS 10.15.5. I managed to get the feature/native-comp branch working, but I found it to be too unstable, so I deleted Emacs ...
- 384
0
votes
0
answers
209
views
Error building emacs master on Ubuntu: xmenu.c Fx_menu_bar_open_internal undeclared
If this is just a transient problem with the master branch, or more likely a misconfiguration on my part, feel free to let me know.
I'm building emacs from scratch on Ubuntu 18.04. I'm at git commit ...
- 496
0
votes
2
answers
233
views
Issue building Emacs's docs with texi2dvi - '-recorder' and '\openout' not supported
I'm trying to build the latest version of Emacs from source, but I seem to be running into an issue. The binary itself works fine, but when it comes to building the docs, the make process runs into ...
0
votes
0
answers
168
views
Unable to install emacs 26.3
I am trying to install emacs 26.3. In installed
sudo apt install autoconf make gcc texinfo libgtk-3-dev libxpm-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev libtiff5-dev libgnutls-dev libncurses5-dev
It cant find ...
- 1
2
votes
2
answers
1k
views
installing emacs 26.3
I'm trying to install emacs 26.3 on debian 10. After the download :
./configure
sudo make
sudo checkinstall
during the checkinstall, I have the following error :
rm -f "/usr/local/share/emacs/26.3/...
- 125
2
votes
1
answer
552
views
No `emacsclient` binary when building from source
I have built Emacs from source and, after make ends successfully, no emacsclient binary is present in the output (./src) directory. What is the recommended way to get the emacsclient binary in this ...
12
votes
2
answers
9k
views
Is there an X11-free build of Emacs that can run on Wayland (not going through XWayland)
I am running Wayland on Ubuntu 18.04.
According to the Wayland FAX, one of it's advantages, compared to X11, is that
Wayland allows better isolation between processes: one window cannot access ...
- 304
1
vote
1
answer
394
views
Building on macOS with a prefix
When I pull 25.1 down from FTP and configure using the following (extrapolated from this run):
curl -o "/tmp/emacs-25.1.tar.xz" "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-25.1.tar.xz"
tar xf "/tmp/emacs-25....
- 7,051
4
votes
2
answers
5k
views
Another way to install emacs on OS X using homebrew
It seems homebrew has removed all the options (incl. --with-cocoa) for brew install emacs. Now it recommends to use brew cask install emacs to get a built binary from https://emacsformacosx.com/. ...
- 231
1
vote
1
answer
2k
views
How can I tell if emacs was built with X support?
Is there a variable like system-configuration-options that will provide the computed features of the running emacs? Specifically, I'm looking for X support (--with-x=yes|no).
Ultimately I'm trying ...
- 7,051
1
vote
1
answer
527
views
How to know the current configuration options of the running Emacs?
How can I know the current configuration options, like
with-cocoa, with-librsvg, with-modules(i.e. the options using when Emacs was built), of the running Emacs, programmatically?
- 775
1
vote
1
answer
689
views
Emacs 26 build on RHEL6 has blank window frame
I just built Emacs 26.1 (stable) on Centos 6 (RHEL 6.9). When I fire up the executable with src/emacs -Q over X11 it shows an empty window with no minibuffer:
I built Emacs without gnutls, but that ...
- 1,405
3
votes
2
answers
3k
views
Emacs 26.1 configure script doesn't like the gnutls version on a RedHat sytem
Even though gnutls-devel.x86_64 is installed on my RedHat 6.6 system. How do I guide the configure script to the required libraries?
[update 2018-06-03 after hint from Ian]
In fact configure found ...
- 1,966
1
vote
0
answers
165
views
-static flag leads to “error: C compiler cannot create executables”
The compiler here is gcc (v. 6.2.0).
If I add -static to either LDFLAGS or CPPFLAGS, the ./configure step of an Emacs build fails, with the error
configure: error: C compiler cannot create ...
- 3,347
2
votes
1
answer
472
views
Cannot enable sound when building from source
I can't seem to enable sound support when building Emacs from source:
Does Emacs support sound? no
It does not seem to be doing anything even if I do:
./configure ...
- 265
5
votes
3
answers
1k
views
configure chooses the "wrong" libraries
I'm trying to build Emacs 26 from source but make fails
./temacs --batch --load loadup bootstrap
./temacs: error while loading shared libraries: libjpeg.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such ...
- 624
1
vote
1
answer
123
views
How to programmatically extract path to etags executable
Q: Assuming that we open Emacs with a path to ../Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs, how can we programmatically extract the path to etags located at ../Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/etags. [The location ...
- 19.5k
2
votes
2
answers
2k
views
How to build Emacs for an embedded ARM Linux system
I am trying to build Emacs for an embedded ARM Linux system. Unfortunately, it is proving to be more difficult than I anticipated. I have the device mounted at /mnt/my_device. Now I am not sure ...
- 1,350
35
votes
3
answers
14k
views
Does emacs have an option to display build settings?
Does emacs have an option or some internal command that displays build time settings and whatever features it supports?
A good example is the nginx -V command which lists the ./configure options it ...
- 1,471
0
votes
1
answer
622
views
Cannot open JPEG files in new emacs build
When I try to open jpeg images on a new emacs build I get the error message
Cannot display image: (This Emacs mishandles this image file type)
I compiled on Debian Jessie and the configure commands ...
- 1,471
1
vote
1
answer
133
views
How do I resolve Ubuntu 16.04 emacs v46.1 default versus compiled v25.2-1 "downgrade"? [closed]
I'm working for the first time on an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS machine, and honestly I'm not sure if this is an emacs build/debian package question or if it's an Ubuntu 16.04 question. Please nudge me in the ...
- 11
1
vote
0
answers
1k
views
What Debian packages are needed to build Emacs from source?
I know that I can run sudo apt-get install emacs25, but (for reasons I don't want to get into) I want to build Emacs from source.
In the past, in order to do this, I've had to apt-get install Debian ...
- 3,347
6
votes
0
answers
156
views
How to build Emacs without byte-compiling Lisp files
Q: Is there an option to build Emacs without byte-compiling the Lisp files?
BACKGROUND: The length of time needed to build Emacs makes debugging / developing an extremely slow process. For example,...
- 19.5k
0
votes
0
answers
124
views
How to build and run Emacs from source with Eclipse?
I have just downloaded the latest version (Oxygen, Release 4.7.0) of the Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers, and would like to use it to build and run Emacs from source, which I have downloaded from the ...
- 1,571
0
votes
1
answer
277
views
Installing Emacs from source: the command `C-h v` for accessing variables doesn't work
I have installed the latest development version of Emacs on my Mac from the source by cloning the Git repository here ('Emacs source repository' under 'Anonymous clone'), and then executing make in ...
- 1,571
6
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Installing Emacs from source: no 'configure' file
I wish to build the latest development version of Emacs from source. I've browsed to https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs and executed the command suggested on the front page, namely
git clone -b ...
- 1,571
1
vote
2
answers
2k
views
How can I install Emacs25.2 on openSuse?
On Ubuntu I would install emacs dependencies with apt-get build-dep emacs24, extract the emacs25.2.tar.gz and install but the dependencies don't seem to be on openSuse's zypper (package manager).
Atm ...
- 1,032
0
votes
1
answer
73
views
Downloaded 1996 Emacs (19.34), consulted INSTALL, no `configure` file
I'm trying to build Emacs 19.34 (which dates from 1996) because I'm interested in its historical behaviour. I've unpacked the archive and read the INSTALL file. That file seems to say that I should ...
- 111
3
votes
0
answers
405
views
How to run emacs under valgrind correctly?
I have tried running the official Fedora build of emacs under valgrind. It very quickly errors out due to thinking it has run out of memory. This is a known issue mentioned in the Valgrind ...
- 999
12
votes
1
answer
5k
views
OS X emacs: difference between X11 vs NS vs Cocoa?
I believe, there are three ways to build emacs on osx --- x11, ns (nextstep?), and cocoa. Can anyone explain what the build options mean / the difference between these three are?
user12502
5
votes
1
answer
1k
views
Building Emacs 25 on CentOS *without admin rights*
I'm having a hard time getting Emacs to build under CentOS 7.1 where I don't have admin rights to install dependencies.
After downloading Emacs sources I tried ./configure, and I found out that I was ...
- 3,683
0
votes
2
answers
176
views
What's the lighest version of emacs for Ostro x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu?
Using Ostro on #IntelMaker #Joule, I've downloaded the earliest version of emacs available from https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/, and tried running configure, but it failed with a message that emacs ...
- 121
1
vote
0
answers
719
views
Find All Dependencies Necessary for an Emacs Install Without X
I'm building a script to install a version of emacs (24.5 in this case) on a small server running on a raspberry pi. Since this will be in headless mode, I have no need for a GUI/X windows based ...
- 463
2
votes
1
answer
553
views
Building emacs without certain packages/components
I'm a longtime Emacs user, and I've decided to take the plunge and build it myself, because I can, and because maybe I'd like to choose a different graphical toolkit. By the by, is there any way, when ...
- 113
6
votes
2
answers
2k
views
building emacs in a docker container
Until very recently, I've been able to build emacs from source in a docker container using this recipe. However as of last week, all my builds have been failing with
Warning: Your system has a gap ...
- 1,830
1
vote
1
answer
333
views
How to exclude ncurses when building Emacs from source
I have a building environment/setup that contains ncurses, and I am looking to build Emacs master branch without that library. I did not see any obvious option in the .configure --help dialog, or by ...
- 19.5k
0
votes
1
answer
306
views
Emacs build error when use "autogen.sh all" to generate configure for master branch
I just cloned the source and try to build Emacs under my debian Jessie, but has some problems:
[23:31:04 coeus]$ ./autogen.sh all
Checking whether you have the necessary tools...
(Read INSTALL.REPO ...
- 123