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Emacs Builds

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Nightly binary builds of Emacs for macOS as a self-contained Emacs.app, with native-compilation.

Features

  • Self-contained Emacs.app application bundle, with no external dependencies.
  • Native-compilation is enabled in nightly builds from the master branch of Emacs, and should just work without the need to install GCC, libgccjit, or any other dependencies.
  • Includes the fix-window-role and system-appearance patches from the excellent emacs-plus project.
  • Build creation is transparent and public through the use of GitHub Actions, allowing anyone to inspect git commit SHAs, full source code, and exact commands used to produce a build. This is especially important right now as builds are not yet signed and notarized.

System Requirements

  • Intel-based Mac running macOS 10.15.x or later.

Downloads

See the Releases page to download latest builds.

Build Process

Building Emacs is done using the jimeh/build-emacs-for-macos build script, executed within a GitHub Actions workflow. This is why macOS 10.15.x or later is required, as it's the oldest version of macOS available in GitHub Actions.

Full history for all builds is available on GitHub Actions here.

Nightly builds are scheduled for 0:00 UTC every night, based on the latest commit from the master branch of the emacs-mirror/emacs repository. This means a nightly build will only be produced if there have been new commits since the last nightly build.

Untrusted Application

Currently builds are not signed or notarized, meaning macOS cannot verify Emacs.app came from a trusted developer, and by default you are not given and option to trust the app and open it.

Simplest way around this is to right-click (or control-click) on the Emacs app in Finder and select "Open". You will then be given the same warning as before, but with a "Open" button now available to trust and open the app. After that you can open the application like normal without any warnings.

Issues / To-Do

Please see Issues for details of things to come, or to report issues.