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Emacs with PGTK, native compilation and JSON on Ubuntu
# Checkout Emacs
$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git
# Vanilla Emacs requirements
$ sudo apt install build-essential autoconf libgtk-3-dev libgnutls28-dev libtiff5-dev libgif-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libxpm-dev libncurses-dev texinfo adwaita-icon-theme-full
# Required for Native JSON
$ sudo apt install libjansson4 libjansson-dev
# Required for GCC
$ sudo apt install gcc-10 libgccjit0 libgccjit-10-dev
$ cd emacs
$ export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-10 CXX=/usr/bin/gcc-10
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --with-pgtk --with-native-compilation --with-json --without-pop
$ make -j$(nproc)
$ sudo make install
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wunki commented Apr 28, 2022

I use the above to install the latest Emacs with pure GTK, native compilation, and JSON support on my Windows WSL with Ubuntu 22.04. Works like a charm, just don't tell Stallman.

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