Question

I am trying to compile Vim on Cygwin, for Ruby and Python scripting support.

vim.exe –which is the terminal vim- compiles and runs fine, but gvim.exe does not. The problem is in the GTK+ 2 libraries, but I have them installed –from setup.exe of cygwin. I tried with higher and lower versions of GTK also.

Here is the relevant part from configure script. Any ideas are welcomed…

checking --enable-gui argument... GTK+ 2.x GUI support
checking --disable-gtktest argument... gtk test enabled
checking for GTK - version >= 2.2.0... no
checking X11/SM/SMlib.h usability... yes
checking X11/SM/SMlib.h presence... yes
checking for X11/SM/SMlib.h... yes
checking X11/xpm.h usability... yes
checking X11/xpm.h presence... yes
checking for X11/xpm.h... yes
checking X11/Sunkeysym.h usability... yes
checking X11/Sunkeysym.h presence... yes
checking for X11/Sunkeysym.h... yes
checking for XIMText in X11/Xlib.h... yes
no GUI selected; xim has been disabled

Answer 1

1. Install all the -devel packages required, including

   • gtk2
   • glib2
   • pangoo
   • atk
   • cairo
   • pixman
   • x11
   • libXt-devel

2. Install gcc4 cygwin package (solves libffi problem)

3. Run

   ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-multibyte --enable-pythoninterp --enable-gui=gtk2 --enable-rubyinterp --disable-gtktest

   gtktest has problems on cygwin, I didn’t dig for the reasons

4. make && make install