I tried building the latest VIM on a Ubuntu system, and it worked, except... I followed the instructions on the VIM page, which consists of 3 steps: 1) git clone http://...2) cd vim/src3) make
This worked, and 8 minutes later, I had a new vim executable. However, I noticed that the first thing the "make" did was to run the usual "configure" script, which is good, but the thing is, I usually like to pass some args to "configure", such as setting the "prefix" to something under my $HOME (so that I can later do "make install" without "sudo") I also noticed that the resulting binary did not include the GUI. Now, I think that VIM without a GUI is virtually useless (Yes, I know, some people may disagree with this, but that's irrelevant). The version of VIM that is already installed on my system (which is old) is the "gtk3" version, and I would like the new version to also be GTK3. Note that installing Vim9 from a repo is not an option here; I need to compile it myself. Now, I figured out that if I do: 1) make distclean2) ./configure ...3) make It will re-do the make, using the version of the configure stuff that I ran manually (i.e., it won't run it again). This is good. However, despite trying several times, I was not able to make a GUI version of Vim9. (I keep getting the error message "GUI not enabled at compile time") Therefore, my questions and comments are: 1) Can someone give me a good list of all the dependencies and packages that I need to install on my Ubuntu 18.04 (Yes, I know that is old, but that also cannot be changed) system so that I can build a GTK3 version of Vim9? (N.B. This is the most important paragraph of this post; everything else is just information!) 2) I hate the fact that it goes ahead and builds it (which takes a non-trivial amount of time and computing resources - as I said, about 8 to 10 minutes) even though the resulting file is junk (useless). I know that Vim is not alone in this behavior - other modern programs are like this - where if they figure out that you don't have the necessary dependencies installed, they go ahead and silently fail (i.e., build an output file that is junk). I wish there were a way - a ./configure option - that would tell it to fail immediately if it is not going to work. Note: I was using the ./configure option: --enable-gui=gtk3I also tried adding: --with-x Note that when I added those options, it did make the resulting file much larger (18 meg vs only 3 meg originally), but it still refused to run the GUI. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/1878165737.1817276.1660137043512%40mail.yahoo.com.
