RE: Emacspeak on Mac

  • From: "DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26" <jude.dashiell@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 13:12:41 -0400

Mac osx 10.4 and up all have cocoa on them and it makes no difference whether 
it's intel or powerpc.  Without cocoa, VoiceOver couldn't work.  If you have a 
mac and use speech on it and VoiceOver comes up when you boot up, you've got 
cocoa.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken Perry
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 13:01
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Emacspeak on Mac

No idea.  If you have Cocoa I would say there is a chance if you don't then
there is not a snowballs chance in Iraq.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kerneels Roos
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 11:44 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Emacspeak on Mac

Thanks for this. Does it work on older, G4 Mac OSX 10.5 also?

On 5/6/2011 7:06 PM, Ken Perry wrote:
> Emacspeak now works on Mac thanks to David.  I know he has posted here
> before but I have just recently set it up on 3 machines with a bit of
Davids
> help so I thought I would post the steps.
>
> first if you don't have Mac ports go to the following link and download
the
> one for your platform:
>
> http://macports.org/install.php
>
> sometimes Mac ports doesn't update your profile so you need to if it
> doesn't.  You can check if it does just by typing port if it is there it
> should give you some usage information.  If it doesn't work then you need
to
> edit your .bash_profile file and add this line
>
> export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
>
> That will make mac ports work right.  After that follow these steps.
>
> #install emacs
> sudo port install emacs
>
> #install subversion
> sudo port install subversion
>
>
>
> #get emacspeak repo from the  emacspeak trunk
> svn co http://emacspeak.googlecode.com/svntrunk emacspeak
>
> #change directories
> cd emacspeak
>
> #make the configure file
> make config
>
> #build emacspeak
> make emacspeak
>
> #install emacspeak
> sudo make install
>
> #add this line to your bash_profile
> export DTK_PROGRAM=mac
>
>
> Now close your terminal and relog in your all done run emacspeak.
>
> thanks goes to David and everyone else in getting this to work.  I know
more
> changes are coming but this works great.
>
>
> Ken
>
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