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1 INSTALL - Installation of Vim on different machines.
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3 This file contains instructions for compiling Vim. If you already have an
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4 executable version of Vim, you don't need this.
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6 Contents:
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7 1. Generic
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8 2. Unix
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9 3. OS/2 (with EMX 0.9b)
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10 4. Atari MiNT
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12 See INSTALLami.txt for Amiga
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13 See INSTALLmac.txt for Macintosh
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14 See INSTALLpc.txt for PC (Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10)
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15 See INSTALLvms.txt for VMS
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16 See INSTALLx.txt for cross-compiling on Unix
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17 See ../READMEdir/README_390.txt for z/OS and OS/390 Unix
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18 See ../runtime/doc/os_haiku.txt for Haiku
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20 1. Generic
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21 ==========
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22
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23 If you compile Vim without specifying anything, you will get the default
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24 behaviour as is documented, which should be fine for most people.
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26 For features that you can't enable/disable in another way, you can edit the
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27 file "feature.h" to match your preferences.
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30 2. Unix
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31 =======
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33 Summary:
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34 1. make run configure, compile and link
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35 2. make install installation in /usr/local
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37 This will include the GUI and X11 libraries, if you have them. If you want a
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38 version of Vim that is small and starts up quickly, see the Makefile for how
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39 to disable the GUI and X11. If you don't have GUI libraries and/or X11, these
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40 features will be disabled automatically.
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42 To build Vim on Ubuntu from scratch on a clean system using git:
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43 Install tools required to be able to get and build Vim:
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44 % sudo apt install git
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45 % sudo apt install make
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46 % sudo apt install clang
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48 Build Vim with default features:
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49 % git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
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50 % cd vim/src
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51 % make
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53 Run tests to check there are no problems:
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54 % make test
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55
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56 Install Vim in /usr/local:
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57 % sudo make install
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59 Add X windows clipboard support (also needed for GUI):
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60 % sudo apt install libxt-dev
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61 % make reconfig
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63 Add GUI support:
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64 % sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev
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67 Add Python 3 support:
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68 % sudo apt install libpython3-dev
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69 Uncomment this line in Makefile:
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70 "CONF_OPT_PYTHON3 = --enable-python3interp"
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71 % make reconfig
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73 Debugging:
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74 % sudo apt install valgrind
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75 Uncomment this line in Makefile:
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76 CFLAGS = -g -Wall -Wextra -Wshadow -Wmissing-prototypes -Wunreachable-code -Wno-deprecated-declarations -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1
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77 % make reconfig
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78 % make test_{test-name}
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79 See output in testdir/valgrind.test_{test-name}
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82 See the start of Makefile for more detailed instructions about how to compile
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83 Vim.
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85 If you need extra compiler and/or linker arguments, set $CFLAGS and/or $LIBS
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86 before starting configure. Example:
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88 env CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LIBS=-lm make
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90 This is only needed for things that configure doesn't offer a specific argument
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91 for or figures out by itself. First try running configure without extra
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92 arguments.
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94 GNU Autoconf and a few other tools have been used to make Vim work on many
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95 different Unix systems. The advantage of this is that Vim should compile
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96 on most systems without any adjustments. The disadvantage is that when
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97 adjustments are required, it takes some time to understand what is happening.
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99 If configure finds all library files and then complains when linking that some
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100 of them can't be found, your linker doesn't return an error code for missing
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101 libraries. Vim should be linked fine anyway, mostly you can just ignore these
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102 errors.
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104 If you run configure by hand (not using the Makefile), remember that any
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105 changes in the Makefile have no influence on configure. This may be what you
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106 want, but maybe not!
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108 The advantage of running configure separately, is that you can write a script
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109 to build Vim, without changing the Makefile or feature.h. Example (using sh):
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111 CFLAGS=-DCOMPILER_FLAG ./configure --enable-gui=motif
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113 One thing to watch out for: If the configure script itself changes, running
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114 "make" will execute it again, but without your arguments. Do "make clean" and
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115 run configure again.
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117 If you are compiling Vim for several machines, for each machine:
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118 a. make shadow
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119 b. mv shadow machine_name
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120 c. cd machine_name
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121 d. make; make install
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123 [Don't use a path for machine_name, just a directory name, otherwise the links
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124 that "make shadow" creates won't work.]
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127 Unix: COMPILING WITH/WITHOUT GUI
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129 NOTE: This is incomplete, look in Makefile for more info.
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131 These configure arguments can be used to select which GUI to use:
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132 --enable-gui=gtk or: gtk2, motif, athena or auto
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133 --disable-gtk-check
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134 --disable-motif-check
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135 --disable-athena-check
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137 This configure argument can be used to disable the GUI, even when the necessary
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138 files are found:
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139 --disable-gui
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142 the order of GTK, Motif, then Athena). If one is found, then it is used and
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146 --enable-{gtk,gtk2,kde,motif,athena}-check all default to "yes", such that if
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147 --enable-gui is "auto" (which it is by default), GTK, Motif, and Athena will
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148 be checked for. If you want to *exclude* a certain check, then you use
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149 --disable-{gtk,gtk2,kde,motif,athena}-check.
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151 For example, if --enable-gui is set to "auto", but you don't want it look for
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152 Motif, you then also specify --disable-motif-check. This results in only
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153 checking for GTK and Athena.
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155 Lastly, if you know which one you want to use, then you can just do
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157 then you'd specify --enable-gui=motif. Once you specify what you want, the
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158 --enable-{gtk,gtk2,kde,motif,athena}-check options are ignored.
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160 On Linux you usually need GUI "-devel" packages. You may already have GTK
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161 libraries installed, but that doesn't mean you can compile Vim with GTK, you
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167 "--disable-gtktest".
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177 work very well and there was no maintainer it was dropped.
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183 compile on a machine where the locale settings actually work, otherwise the
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186 ./configure --with-features=big
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190 On Linux, when using -g to compile (which is default for gcc), the executable
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196 Some Linux distributions prefer to put the global vimrc file in /etc, and the
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197 Vim runtime files in /usr. This can be done with:
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198 ./configure --prefix=/usr
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199 make VIMRCLOC=/etc VIMRUNTIMEDIR=/usr/share/vim MAKE="make -e"
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203 Add the "-posix" argument to the compiler by using one of these commands:
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204 setenv CC 'cc -posix' (csh)
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206 And run configure with "--disable-motif-check".
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210 Sometimes it is necessary to search different path than /usr/local for locally
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214 ./configure --with-local-dir=/stranger
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216 ./configure --without-local-dir
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228 Atari MiNT support was removed in patch 8.2.1215.