Re: Emacspeak on Mac

  • From: David Tseng <davidct1209@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 11:09:17 -0700

Should work on 10.5 as long as you can get all the dependencies
installed through Mac Ports (or home brew).

10.5 most definitely has the cocoa frameworks btw.
On 5/9/11, Kerneels Roos <kerneels@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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