RE: Emacspeak on Mac

  • From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 14:15:33 -0400

Grin I didn't use a mac before it because a better OS 10.5 definitely
wasn't.  I can't wait for Lion now.  The sad part is I like all three OS's
now so I have to have a mac so I can run them legally.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Tseng
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 2:09 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Emacspeak on Mac

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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