TextMate 2

Building TextMate

To bootstrap the build you need to run ./configure (in the root of the source tree). You can set a few (environment) variables read by this script that change the generated build file:

• builddir — location of built files. Defaults to ~/build/TextMate.
• identity — for Apple’s codesign. Defaults to ad-hoc signing, which does not use an identity at all.

In the simplest case you would run:

git clone https://github.com/textmate/textmate.git
cd textmate
git submodule update --init
./configure && ninja

Please note that if you downloaded the source code (rather than cloned via git) you likely miss the submodules and the build will therefore fail.

Prerequisites

To build the source the following must first be installed on your system:

• ninja — build system similar to make
• ragel — state machine compiler
• boost — portable C++ source libraries
• multimarkdown — marked-up plain text compiler
• mercurial — distributed SCM system
• [clang 3.2/4.0][] — C, C++, and Objective-C compiler
• proctools (OS 10.7) — pgrep and pkill shell commands

Discussions

There is a mailing list and the #textmate IRC channel at freenode.net.