Am trying to build gvim7.4 from source on a box running CentOS 6.4. I followed the instructions mentioned to build vim locally. The executable 'vim' gets built just fine, but 'gvim' is nowhere to be seen. I tried everything that I could find on google but doesn't seem to be helping.Should 'gvim' be built using any other method (other than the usual configure/make way)?
Or is there any obscure trick to build the executable for gvim?My OS: CentOS 6.4. Has all X/devel stuff that's required. Command used is:./configure -prefix=/usr -with-compiledby='megazoe' -with-features=huge -enable-rubyinterp -enable-pythoninterp -enable-python3interp -enable-gui=gnome2 -enable-luainterp -enable-perlinterp -enable-cscopeThe stdout from configure has below stuff related to X: checking if X11 header files can be found. Yeschecking for XdmcpAuthDoIt in -lXdmcp.
Nochecking for IceOpenConnection in -lICE. Yeschecking for XpmCreatePixmapFromData in -lXpm. Yeschecking if X11 header files implicitly declare return values. Nochecking size of wchart is 2 bytes.
Nochecking -enable-gui argument. GNOME 2.x GUI supportchecking -disable-gtktest argument. Gtk test enabledchecking for pkg-config. /usr/bin/pkg-configchecking for GTK - version = 2.2.0. Yes; found version 2.18.9checking for libgnomeui-2.0.
Yeschecking for FreeBSD. Nochecking X11/SM/SMlib.h usability. Yeschecking X11/SM/SMlib.h presence. Yeschecking for X11/SM/SMlib.h. Yeschecking X11/xpm.h usability.
Yeschecking X11/xpm.h presence. Yeschecking for X11/xpm.h. Yeschecking X11/Sunkeysym.h usability.
Yeschecking X11/Sunkeysym.h presence. Yeschecking for X11/Sunkeysym.h. Yeschecking for XIMText in X11/Xlib.h.
C++ Header Files List
YesX GUI selected; xim has been enabledchecking for CYGWIN environment. NoMake doesn't throw any error, 'vim' gets built just fine.
Checking For X11 Header Files In California
Header Files In C Language
Only, there's no gvim to be seen anywhere! I can use the -g switch with vim for a GUI instance vim -g but that isn't gvim, with the GNOME menubar and the works, which is what I want. Shouldn't 'gvim' get built since -enable-gui=gnome2 is used? Or is gvim a totally different beast altogether?Any suggestions on how to get around this problem?Thanks!
The trick seems to be setting a proper vimruntime dir while invoking make, and having below ones -enable-gui=gnome2-with-x=yesin list of switches for configure script.Here's my test build script which seems to be giving the required result.