Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Re: Compiling gvim on Debian

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Matteo Riva <muradin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to compile vim with gui support on a Debian system.  I can't
> seem to figure how to enable the gui option, I tried
>
>   ./configure --enable-gui=gnome2
>
> assuming it would at least check for the required libraries and warn me
> if any are missing, but in configure's output there is no mention of gtk
> lib check and all I get grepping 'gui' on its output is
>
>   checking --enable-gui argument... no GUI support
>
> So I'm not sure what the problem is: wrong configure option or missing
> libraries? If it's the latter, what dev packages do I need to install?

Ok following up on my on message as I found that the missing part was
the 'xorg-dev' package. Compile went fine after installing it.

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