Re: [Mac-emacs-devel] Emacs 21.1 OSX under Cocoa and X window?

[Andrew C. <ak...@cs...>]

> Is it possible to build a emacs 21.1 for OSX which both works under
> Cocoa and X Window?...
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> PS: I gave it a try, but the compilation fails.

Hi Felix,

Because Emacs is written to run under a single type of window system
determined and fixed at configuration time, it will require quite a
bit of modification to the code to create a single binary that
supports two types of window systems.  The current code uses the
Carbon API and not Cocoa nor X Window.

It should not be hard to compile Emacs to run under X Window on the
Mac.  It should be just a matter of fixing the autoconf file and
perhaps dealing with a few bugs.  Someone was working on this a while
ago but I haven't heard from that effort again.  I do not run X Window
on my Mac so perhaps someone else would be kind enough to try this.

Andrew.