Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Re: Compiling Vim GUI on Ubuntu

P.S. On Linux, unlike on Windows, a single executable can run both as
a GUI or as a console application, so if you build a gui-enabled vim,
and install the correct symlinks (e.g. "pushd /usr/local/bin; ln -sv
vim gvim; popd) you will be able to run the same executable in the
console by calling it vim, or as a GUI by calling it gvim, so a single
compile should be enough.

However, if you still want to compile more than one executable (e.g. a
Huge build called vim and symlinked gvim, and a Tiny build called vi)
I recommend using "shadow directories", see the target "shadow" in
the src/Makefile.


Best regards,
Tony.

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