Monday, September 6, 2010

Re: Trouble Installing Vim on MinGW

On Mon, September 6, 2010 6:11 am, alanf00@comcast.net wrote:
> Although I've installed ncurses, in trying to install vim, I get
> complaints about things related to ncurses, either way I try to
> compile it:
>
> 1) Using just "make", I get an error, with the last lines of make's
> output:
> checking --with-tlib argument... empty: automatic terminal library
> selection
> checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
> checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
> checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
> checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
> no terminal library found
> checking for tgetent()... configure: error: NOT FOUND!
> You need to install a terminal library; for example ncurses.
> Or specify the name of the library with --with-tlib.
> make[1]: *** [config] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/alan/tempvim/vim73/src'
> make: *** [first] Error 2
>
> 2) Using "./configure --prefix=/usr --with-tlib=/include/ncurses --
> with-features=big", I get a different error with the last lines of
> configure's output:
> checking --with-tlib argument... ncurses
> checking for linking with ncurses library... configure: error:
> FAILED

Yes. As far as I know, if you want to use mingw you simply use

> "make -f Make_ming.mak"

You don't need configure then. At least that was how I did it the last
time I built vim using mingw.

regards,
Christian.

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