I just built and uploaded Emacs.app 24.2 (released August 2012) to the mac garden: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/emacs-242. This version works with Tiger and Leopard.
(also available via
I came across https://emacsformacosx.com/ but I noticed his builds for PowerPC stopped a long time ago, so I got curious about how recent of a version of emacs would build on Tiger.
After attempting to build many versions of the source from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/, I found that starting in 24.3 they require a C11 compiler for the
However, a sufficiently interested user could probably work around those issues and get a more recent version building as well. There are only a handful of lines using
(also available via
leopard.sh emacs.app-24.2)I came across https://emacsformacosx.com/ but I noticed his builds for PowerPC stopped a long time ago, so I got curious about how recent of a version of emacs would build on Tiger.
After attempting to build many versions of the source from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/, I found that starting in 24.3 they require a C11 compiler for the
alignas keyword, and then in 25.1 they updated their Cocoa code to use features from Snow Leopard.However, a sufficiently interested user could probably work around those issues and get a more recent version building as well. There are only a handful of lines using
alignas and I have a suspicion the 24.2 Cocoa code would probably work unmodified in more recent versions (the code is intermixed with a GNUStep implementation, which I doubt has changed in like forever, so the basic interface into the objective-c files is probably stable).
