nvox

NeoVim for OS X

About

There are other working NeoVim GUIs for OS X, e.g. NyaoVim, neovim-dot-app, etc., why another? Well, nvox is a toy project, meaning e.g. no tests whatsoever, for me to:

• play around (obviously) with NeoVim,
• play around with the XPC-architecture and to find out whether this is a viable choice for an OSX-NeoVim-GUI-app,
• play around with Swift (and especially with RxSwift) and
• (most importantly) have fun!

It could very well be that nothing useful comes out of it.

How to Build

First install homebrew, then:

xcode-select --install # install the Xcode command line tools
brew install carthage # install Carthage for dependency management
brew install libtool automake cmake pkg-config gettext ninja # install libs and tools for neovim

carthage update --platform osx

git submodule update --init
cd neovim
ln -s ../NeoVimXpc/local.mk .
make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release libnvim # optional, the nvox target in Xcode also does this

Run the nvox-target in Xcode.

Project Setup

Artifacts Hierarchy

nvox.app
+-- SwiftNeoVim.framework
    +-- NeoVimView
    +-- NeoVimXpc.xpc
        +-- libnvim
        +-- other libs for NeoVim
        +-- runtime files for NeoVim

Libraries for NeoVim

• The library libiconv is linked by the linker flag -liconv. The version bundled with OSX will be linked.
• The library libintl should be installed by homebrew and is statically linked by explicitly using the linker flag /usr/local/opt/gettext/lib/libintl.a.
• Other libraries used by NeoVim, which are automatically built by building libnvim, are linked by adding them to the Xcode project.