On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM Michael Scheper <vim-dev-git...@256bit.org> wrote: > > I'm trying to install gVim 9 on Mint 21.3 Cinnamon. > > configure complained about a missing library, and sudo apt install > libncurses-dev made that go away. Then, after I complied it using make, vim > worked great… but gvim was missing and vim -g said I compiled without the GUI > option. > > Um, I'm fairly sure I actually did? > > ./configure --enable-fail-if-missing --enable-gui=gtk3 --enable-gtk3-check > --enable-python3interp=yes --enable-terminal --enable-autoservername > > Turns out I got bitten by this bug, and 'no GUI support' was buried in the > configure output. > > Okay, so hopefully that bug will be fixed, but how do I get gVim compiled? > > My system definitely has GTK3: > > $ gtk-launch --version > 3.24.33 > > Are there other packages I need to install or special flags I need? > > Thanks!
If you have the GTK3 package, and everything that it requires, that is enough to use executables compiled by others and using GTK3. To compile a GTK3 program yourself (such as gvim with GTK3) you also need the GTK3 _development_ package which is usually named (depending on your Linux distro) gtk3-dev or gtk3-devel. So my counsel is to search your distro's software repository for packages whose name starts with "gtk3", not "case sensitive" if that option is offered, sort by package name, and scan for something named either "gtk3-dev" or "gtk3-devel" with nothing after it in the name. My bet is that such a package is available but not installed, and that after you install it, configure + make + make install will give you a GUI-enabled version of Vim, with GTK3, which can be run as gvim. I could tell you the exact procedure for openSUSE Linux which is what I use, but I know absolutely nothing about Mint so I can give you only the general lines of what to do but not the details. Best regards, Tony. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" 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_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAJkCKXuHsP1CBEjzTxG%2Bzi%2BQSr86BnpdquPdNaCFH%3Dx5dzSKnA%40mail.gmail.com.
