Building MacVim from sourceEdit
Official notes
Local notes
As of 1 March 2010, it seems that the following configure incantation will produce a build with the same features as the last official snapshot release (snapshot 51 at the time of writing):
./configure --with-features=huge --with-macarchs=i386 --enable-rubyinterp --enable-pythoninterp --enable-cscope --disable-nls
make
This produces a build with the following features (as reported by --version):
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Mar 1 2010 18:30:13)
MacOS X (unix) version
Included patches: 1-356
Compiled by wincent@cuzco.local
Huge version with MacVim GUI. Features included (+) or not (-):
+arabic +autocmd -balloon_eval +browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent
+clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info +comments
+cryptv +cscope +cursorshape +dialog_con_gui +diff +digraphs +dnd -ebcdic
+emacs_tags +eval +ex_extra +extra_search +farsi +file_in_path +find_in_path
+float +folding -footer +fork() +fullscreen -gettext -hangul_input +iconv
+insert_expand +jumplist +keymap +langmap +libcall +linebreak +lispindent
+listcmds +localmap +menu +mksession +modify_fname +mouse +mouseshape
+mouse_dec -mouse_gpm -mouse_jsbterm +mouse_netterm -mouse_sysmouse
+mouse_xterm +multi_byte +multi_lang -mzscheme +netbeans_intg +odbeditor
-osfiletype +path_extra -perl +postscript +printer +profile +python +quickfix
+reltime +rightleft +ruby +scrollbind +signs +smartindent -sniff +startuptime
+statusline -sun_workshop +syntax +tag_binary +tag_old_static -tag_any_white
-tcl +terminfo +termresponse +textobjects +title +toolbar +transparency
+user_commands +vertsplit +virtualedit +visual +visualextra +viminfo +vreplace
+wildignore +wildmenu +windows +writebackup -X11 -xfontset +xim -xsmp
-xterm_clipboard -xterm_save
system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim"
fall-back for $VIM: "/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim"
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_MACVIM -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -pipe -DMACOS_X_UNIX -no-cpp-precomp -g -O2 -arch i386 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/include/python2.6
Linking: gcc -L. -arch i386 -L/usr/local/lib -o Vim -framework Cocoa -framework Carbon -lm -lncurses -liconv -framework Python -framework Ruby