pastbedti.me » vim http://www.pastbedti.me About ruby, rails, postgresql and stuff.... Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:09:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to compile VIM under OS X http://www.pastbedti.me/2009/01/how-to-compile-vim-under-os-x/ http://www.pastbedti.me/2009/01/how-to-compile-vim-under-os-x/#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:53:31 +0000 Mathias Stjernström http://www.pastbedti.me/?p=367 Configure and compiling VIM under OS X did not work out-of-the box for me. I did not want to use MacPorts VIM as it’s dependent on ruby (if you like me want that) and I did not find a way of compiling MacPorts VIM against my local ruby.

This post is about how to get VIM compiling on OS X/intel without the use of MacPorts.

1. Configure without specifying architecture

When running configure without specifying architecture everything looks fine but when you run make you get this nice little error.

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./configure --enable-rubyinterp --enable-multibyte --with-features=huge
... stripped output ...
make

Undefined symbols for architecture ppc:
  "_main", referenced from:
      start in crt1.10.5.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture ppc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
lipo: can't open input file: /var/folders/os/osNwawQ0Hreve7NDQEugQ++++TI/-Tmp-//ccD17Dx3.out (No such file or directory)
make[1]: *** [Vim] Error 1
make: *** [first] Error 2

I did not do any Sherlock holmes work to understand this message as I do not need PPC support. I learned that there is a flag called ‘–with-mac-arch‘.

2. configure with specifying architecture

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> ./configure --with-mac-arch=intel --enable-rubyinterp --enable-multibyte --with-features=huge

checking --with-tlib argument... empty: automatic terminal library selection
checking for tgetent in -lncurses... (cached) yes
ncurses library is not usable
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.

But as you can see specifying architecture did not even make is trough configure. I tried to specifying –with-tlib and adding LIBS path did not help. I did spend quite some time on this step to solve this one, but no luck here.

3. The working solution.

This became the working solution for me. Not that pretty but it did work :)

Run ./configure without arch flags.

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./configure --enable-rubyinterp --enable-multibyte --with-features=huge

When done, edit src/auto/config.mk and remove PPC arch.
And yes! I know editing src/auto/config.mk is not that good and that the file is getting overwritten every time you run configure

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> vim src/auto/config.mk

on Line 26

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  LDFLAGS   = -L. -arch ppc -arch i386  -L/usr/local/lib

Remove the PPC part “-arch ppc”
After removing PPC you can run:

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make
sudo make install

I hope this can save someone else some time and i hope this is one of many to come blog posts that involves VIM!

Cheers!

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