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Build vim in Manjaro Linux

Date: 2017-04-27 15:31:32 +0000

Sources: Building Vim from source (Valloric)

The default vim build packaged with Manjaro Linux do not include the clientserver feature. To make vim work with ranger inside tilix, it needed to be rebuilt with the necessary feature included. This post shows how to build vim fresh from its repository at https://github.com/vim/vim.git.

tilix and ranger packages are available in the Manjaro Linux repositories and can be installed using pacman.

$ sudo pacman -S tilix
$ sudo pacman -S ranger

Manjaro Linux 17.0.1 (Gellivara) have the following versions of the packages.

Application Version Description
ranger 1.8.1 Minimalistic console file manager in Linux with VI key bindings. [http://ranger.nongnu.org]
tilix 1.5.6 GTK+3 tiling terminal emulator using the VTE (Virtual Terminal Emulator) GTK widget. [https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/]
vim 8.0 As packaged with Manjaro Linux XFCE 17.0.1 [update 2017-04-23].

Steps for building vim was taken from an article by Val Markovic.

  1. Install required libraries.
  2. Remove vim if installed.
  3. Get the vim sources.
  4. Build and install.

Install Required Libraries for Building vim

The following table shows the version numbers of libraries available in Manjaro Linux.

Libraries Version Description
ncurses 6.0 Programming library providing an application programming interface (API) that allows the programmer to write text-based user interfaces in a terminal-independent manner. [https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html]
libgnome 2.32.1 Gnome Library [developer.gnome.org/libgnome/stable/]
gtk2 2.24.31 Cross-platform GUI toolkit [https://www.gtk.org]
atk 2.24.0 Accessibility Toolkit (ATK) refers in particular to the GNOME ATK, an application programming interface (API) for developing free/open source accessible applications for platforms such as Linux or OpenBSD. [https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility]
libbonoboui 2.24.5 Programming library that provides a number of user interface controls using the Bonobo component framework. [https://developer.gnome.org/libbonobo/stable/index.html] [http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/projecten/nluug-bonobo/]
cairo 1.14.8 Programming library that provides a vector graphics-based, device-independent API for software developers. [https://www.cairographics.org]
libx11 1.6.5 An X Window System protocol client library containing functions for interacting with an X server. These functions allow programmers to write programs without knowing the details of the protocol. [https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/libX11/libX11.html]
libxpm 3.5.12 X11 pixmap library [https://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/]
libxt 1.1.5 X11 toolkit intrinsics library [https://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/]
python 3.6.0 A high-level programming language for general-purpose programming, created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991. [https://www.python.org]
ruby 2.4.0 Is a dynamic, reflective, object-oriented, general-purpose programming language. It was designed and developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto in Japan. [https://www.ruby-lang.org/]
lua51 5.1.5 A powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description. [https://www.lua.org]
perl 5.24.1 Is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language which had its roots and was optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. [https://www.perl.org]
git 2.12.2 Is a distributed version control system created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for the development of the Linux kernel aimed for speed, data integrity and non-linear workflow [https://git-scm.com]

Install the libraries with the following commands:

$ sudo pacman -S ncurses
$ sudo pacman -S libgnome
$ sudo pacman -S libgnomeui
$ sudo pacman -S gtk2
$ sudo pacman -S atk
$ sudo pacman -S libbonoboui
$ sudo pacman -S cairo
$ sudo pacman -S libx11
$ sudo pacman -S libxpm
$ sudo pacman -S libxt
$ sudo pacman -S python
$ sudo pacman -S ruby
$ sudo pacman -S lua51
$ sudo pacman -S perl
$ sudo pacman -S git

Remove vim

If it is possible, remove vim from the system. Currently, cppman is installed which is dependent on vim which I did not uninstall and gambled that things would turn out well.

$ sudo pacman -R vim

Get the vim sources

The vim sources is in https://github.com/vim/vim.git. This is the only reason it was necessary to install git.

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vim/vim.git

The command used is a “shallow clone”. By providing the argument --depth 1, git is instructed to download only the latest revision or the current HEAD of everything in the repository.

Build and Install

Before building, the configure script needs to know the python configuration directory. On Manjaro XFCE, the python 3.5 configuration directory is in /usr/lib/python3.5/config-3.6m-x86_64-linux-gnu. The argument --with-features=huge includes the clientserver feature along with others which may later be found unnecessary in my daily use. The build might be a little bloated although it can be trimmed down but that wil be for another post.

$ cd vim
$ ./configure --with-features=huge \
              --enable-multibyte \
              --enable-rubyinterp=yes \
              --enable-pythoninterp=yes \
              --enable-python3interp=yes \
              --with-python3-config-dir=/usr/lib/python3.5/config-3.6m-x86_64-linux-gnu \
              --enable-perlinterp=yes \
              --enable-luainterp=yes \
              --enable-gui=gtk2 --enable-cscope --prefix=/usr

To build, run the command:

$ make VIMRUNTIMEDIR=/usr/share/vim/vim80

Then to install:

$ sudo make install

The following is the verbosely informative output of the --version argument of the newly built vim. The build included the GTK2 GUI application that is not in the packaged build.

$ vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Apr 28 2017 00:39:16)
Included patches: 1-586
Compiled by spherehead@sphere-0
Huge version with GTK2 GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):
+acl             +file_in_path    +mouse_sgr       +tag_old_static
+arabic          +find_in_path    -mouse_sysmouse  -tag_any_white
+autocmd         +float           +mouse_urxvt     -tcl
+balloon_eval    +folding         +mouse_xterm     +termguicolors
+browse          -footer          +multi_byte      +terminfo
++builtin_terms  +fork()          +multi_lang      +termresponse
+byte_offset     +gettext         -mzscheme        +textobjects
+channel         -hangul_input    +netbeans_intg   +timers
+cindent         +iconv           +num64           +title
+clientserver    +insert_expand   +packages        +toolbar
+clipboard       +job             +path_extra      +user_commands
+cmdline_compl   +jumplist        +perl            +vertsplit
+cmdline_hist    +keymap          +persistent_undo +virtualedit
+cmdline_info    +lambda          +postscript      +visual
+comments        +langmap         +printer         +visualextra
+conceal         +libcall         +profile         +viminfo
+cryptv          +linebreak       +python/dyn      +vreplace
+cscope          +lispindent      +python3/dyn     +wildignore
+cursorbind      +listcmds        +quickfix        +wildmenu
+cursorshape     +localmap        +reltime         +windows
+dialog_con_gui  +lua             +rightleft       +writebackup
+diff            +menu            +ruby            +X11
+digraphs        +mksession       +scrollbind      -xfontset
+dnd             +modify_fname    +signs           +xim
-ebcdic          +mouse           +smartindent     +xpm
+emacs_tags      +mouseshape      +startuptime     +xsmp_interact
+eval            +mouse_dec       +statusline      +xterm_clipboard
+ex_extra        +mouse_gpm       -sun_workshop    -xterm_save
+extra_search    -mouse_jsbterm   +syntax
+farsi           +mouse_netterm   +tag_binary
   system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
     user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
 2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc"
      user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
  system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
    user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
2nd user gvimrc file: "~/.vim/gvimrc"
       defaults file: "$VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim"
    system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim"
 f-b for $VIMRUNTIME: "/usr/share/vim/vim80"
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_GTK  -pthread
-I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0
-I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1
-I/usr/include/libdrm -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/libpng16
-I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16
-I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
-I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz
-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
-g -O2 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1
Linking: gcc -L. -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro -fstack-protector
-rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic -Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/CORE
-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,--as-needed -o vim -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0
-lpangocairo-1.0 -latk-1.0 -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0
-lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lfontconfig -lfreetype
-lSM -lICE -lXpm -lXt -lX11 -lXdmcp -lSM -lICE  -lm -lncurses -lelf -lnsl -lacl
-lattr -lgpm -ldl -L/usr/lib -llua -Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/CORE
-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib
-L/usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/CORE -lperl -lpthread -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
-lruby -lpthread -lgmp -ldl -lcrypt -lm

Other Command Outputs (Extra)

Command outputs for reference.

  •  vim
  •  manjaro
  •  tilix
  •  ranger