Building emacs 🐃 native

Building emacs 🐃 native 🆙

This blog post describes how to build Emacs with native comp activated.

Install build dependencies (Ubuntu 22)


sudo apt install build-essential
sudo apt build-dep emacs
sudo apt install libgccjit0 libgccjit-11-dev

Build native emacs


cd ~/src
git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git

pushd emacs
./autogen.sh
popd

mkdir -p build/emacs99-99
cd build/emacs99-99
../../emacs/configure --with-mailutils \
                      --with-native-compilation \
                      --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 \
                      --prefix=$HOME/.local/emacs \
                      --with-tree-sitter


make
make install

Compile packages


(native-compile-async "~/.emacs.d/elpa/" 4 t)