Re: Compiling / Building Vim in Mingw/Msys

On 05/08/12 10:49, Gusman wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have question about compiling/building vim 73 in Mingw/Msys environment.
>
> I have downloaded vim source code from vim website. And then extract and
> do ./configure.
> but ./configure process is not completed, I found error like below:
>
> 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.
>
> I have been googling until now, but I can't find any references about
> --with-tlib.
> What is with-tlib exactly?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
> Gusman Dharma P

Looks like you didn't install all necessary packages. Check MinGW for an
"ncurses" packages, and if there is a "development" package for ncurses,
install it too. Make sure you also have whatever is available for
termcap and/or terminfo, including development packages if any.
(Comiling Vim is a "development" task: you are "developing" Vim on your
system.)

See also http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm

about compiling Vim in a Unix-like environment. You may or may not be
also interested in

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Getting_the_Vim_source_with_Mercurial

about always having the latest sources.


However, for Windows, if you just want to have a reasonably up-to-date
Vim and gvim that work on your system, you can spare yourself the hassle
of compiling them: just install Steve Hall's "Vim without Cream" as the
latest "Vim" (not "Cream") installer from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cream/files/Vim/ (7.3.600 as of this
writing). The gvim-*.exe is the installer for vim, gvim and their
runtime files; and the gvim-*_release-notes.txt is the output of the
:version command, a little prettified to make it more human-readable.


Best regards,
Tony.
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