Re: Building VIM 9 on Ubuntu

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 10:43 AM 'J S' via vim_use
<vim_use@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Not trying to be difficult or insulting or anything like that, but so it boils down to, no, there is no easy way to do it.
> You (i.e., me) just have to figure it out. By the way, my system doesn't have "build-dep". It says no such package.
>
> Right?
>
> Again, it would be so much better if it would just fail if it isn't going to work.
>

If you pass the "--enable-fail-if-missing" argument to configure, then
it will fail if the
dependencies are not found.

- Yegappan

>
> Also, and BTW, I can't login to Google, so I can't respond to this thread the normal way. So, I just have to kludge it via email. Sorry about that.
>
>
> Gary Johnson wrote the following:
> unread,
> 1:11 PM (26 minutes ago)
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> to vim...@googlegroups.com
> On 2022-08-10, 'J S' via vim_use wrote:
>
> > 1) Can someone give me a good list of all the dependencies and packages that I
> > need to install on my Ubuntu 18.04 (Yes, I know that is old, but that also
> > cannot be changed) system so that I can build a GTK3 version of Vim9? (N.B.
> > This is the most important paragraph of this post; everything else is just
> > information!)
>
> 1. Find the Ubuntu package that includes the features you want in
> Vim.
>
> $ apt list | grep ^vim
>
> In your case, that would be vim-gtk3
>
> 2. Do one of the following.
>
> a) Have apt install dependencies automatically.
>
> $ sudo apt build-dep vim-gtk3
>
> ----> Shouldn't that be "sudo apt install ..." ?
>
> b) View the dependencies and install the ones you want or need
> manually.
>
> $ apt show vim-gtk3 | grep ^Depends
>
> For each <package> to be installed, run
>
> $ sudo apt install <package>
>

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