I'm having a hard time building a VIM
7.4(obtained from vim's ftp site) with gui
option. It builds ok without the gui
option. Here's how I'm doing it:
cd ~/Downloads/vim74/src
./configure --enable-gui
The above line does not seem to work because I get this output from the command:
./configure --enable-gui | grep gui
checking --enable-gui argument... no GUI support
I uncommented line 352 of the makefile to enable the gui(I think):
CONF_OPT_GUI = --enable-gui=gtk2
But when I run vim -g
(after rebuilding) I get:
E25: GUI cannot be used: Not enabled at compile time
There's a suggestion in the makefile to check the generated auto/config.h
and
auto/config.mk
files but the files are empty(less than 10 lines).
How do you fix this?
apt
command, it would probably work(haven't tried it). I want a solution for when compiling from its sources.make install
or just amake
? if the latter, then in order to run the newly-built binary you must specify the path explicitly i.e. if you are in thevim74
directory where you issued themake
command, do./src/vim -g
. It should not be necessary to specify any additional options toconfigure
, I just tested it and the default configuration produced a GUI-enabled executable../src/vim -g
folder, how'd you do that? Please outline the steps you are using.