Hi, Downloading the vim-7-extra.tar.gz file did the trick and I now have a functional Vim GUI. Unfortunately now it seems that the command-line executables aren't compiled / installed, just the Vim.app, which I find slightly annoying.
Now that I have a functional Gui ... is there a way for me to start it from the command-line using a non-existent filename? I can use 'open /usr/Vim.app' to start gui Vim, or 'open -a /usr/Vim.app ~/.vimrc' to edit ~/.vimrc in gui Vim, but if ~/.vimrc does not exist, then 'open' command fails. Is there a way to start gui vim using a filename which doesn't exist? regards, Peter --- Richard Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Hodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > I am trying to compile vim with gui support on Mac OS X 10.2, but it > doesn't > > seem to work. I use > > > > ./configure --enable-gui=auto > > > > And this is the only line of output I get containing the word 'gui': > > > > ... > > checking --enable-gui argument... no GUI support > > ... > > > > Do I need to install some additional libraries such as GTK to make this > work? > > > > regards, > > Peter > > > > I'm on Mac OS X 10.4.6, and I was trying to build 7.0.017 with > --enable-gui=carbon to > get an aqua version of vim, but it was saying that carbon wasn't supported. > Looking > at vim70/src/auto/config.log revealed that configure was disabling darwin > support, > because in the default vim-7.0.tar.bz2 tarball there is no > vim70/src/os_macosx.c hence > carbon was disabled. > > Easy solution is to download vim-7.0-extra.tar.gz (which contains all the mac > specific > stuff, as well as lots of other, erm, extras) from ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/extra > and unpack > into the vim70 dir, re-run ./configure with the flags you require, then make > and sudo > make install > > You won't need GTK+ for carbon GUI. > > HTH > Richard > > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com
