How can I build vim with a gui without gtk?
I've recently started playing around with pygobject. However, gvim or vim's python-complete feature crashes, because, as I understand, you cannot mix GTK2 and GTK3 libraries in the same process.
Therefore, I'd like to know how to install Vim with a non-GTK toolkit. (sudo apt-get build-dep vim will try to install gtk2 libs.)
Please note that I'm very happy with Vim, and I don't want to switch editors.
I've found instructions to build vim with qt, however python-complete is not working properly.
Solution 1:
If you built vim
against Qt rather than GTK+ and python-complete
still isn't working, that suggests the problem isn't actually a consequence of trying to link to both GTK+2 and GTK+3.
However, since you haven't yet provided any details about how you built with Qt (Qt isn't officially supported, so you must have used a third party derivative of vim
), and you haven't provided any detailed information about what error messages or malfunctions you're having with python-complete
, it's not really possible to tell you how to fix the problem and get vim
working with Qt.
Fortunately, vim
officially supports some GUI's other than GTK+ and Qt, and one such build is officially packaged for Ubuntu.
Just install the Athena version of vim
, which is provided by the vim-athena package.
You can install by clicking the package link above, or searching for it in the Software Center or Synaptic Package Manager, or running these commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vim-athena
vim-athena
doesn't depend on or use any version of GTK+. If you use sudo apt-get build-dep vim-athena
, it probably will install GTK+ and GNOME related libraries, because the vim-athena
binary package is built from the same source package as vim
and other vim
-providing packages. In any case, you shouldn't need to build from source, as the binaries provided by vim-athena
are already built against Athena and not against GTK+ or other graphical toolkits.