Compile vim with clipboard and xterm

Question

I want to compile the current version of vim with:

+clipboard +xterm_clipboard and ruby support 

But every time I compile it the clipboard and the xterm_clipboard options aren't enabled.

Is there a lib needed or must I add any other options in the configuration step?

./configure \
--enable-rubyinterp=dynamic \
--enable-cscope \
--enable-gui=auto \
--enable-gtk2-check \
--enable-gnome-check \
--with-features=huge \
--with-x 
 make && sudo make install

Solution 1

You can see if configure manage to find a working X lib by checking the output of (or scroll through the output of configure in your terminal):

$ grep X11 src/auto/config.h
#define HAVE_X11

If configure failed then you'll see:

$ grep X11 src/auto/config.h
/* #undef HAVE_X11 */

You'll need to install the appropriate X development library like xlib and xtst for --with-x to work.

On ubuntu it should be enough to install libx11-dev and libxtst-dev.

Solution 2

ubuntu18.04.4

sudo apt install libx11-dev libxtst-dev libxt-dev libsm-dev libxpm-dev

./configure --enable-python3interp=dynamic --prefix=$HOME/.local --enable-rubyinterp=dynamic --enable-gtk2-check --enable-gnome-check --with-features=huge --with-x

make install

./src/vim ---version | grep clip

Comments

[fvdnabee]

Only installing those two libs on Ubuntu 12.04 didn't work for me. You can try installing the xorg-dev package under Ubuntu, although you do get a lot of additional and potentially unneeded packages this way.

[Bentley4]

Running sudo aptitude install vim-gnome for 12.04 also fixes this.

[AC88]

Exact X.Org packages seem to be: libx11-dev libxtst-dev libxt-dev libsm-dev libxpm-dev That gets all the HAVE_X11 defines except HAVE_X11_XMU_EDITRES_H, which doesn't seem to be enabled by X11/Xmu/Editres.h being added by libxmu-dev, probably only used in gvim.

[cledoux]

@holygeek, please add all packages listed by Simon in your answer as they all appear necessary on Ubuntu. Took me forever to see Simon's comment and actually get the clipboard working. Thanks!

[alhelal]

@holygeek grep: src/auto/config.h: No such file or directory

[Zane Hitchcox]

This didn't work for me until I completely deleted my vim directory and started over.

[dza]

@ZaneHitchcox same issue for me, it seems you can disable this "configure" cache behaviour by ./configure --cache-file=/dev/null THIS however had absolutely no effect for me and I had to do rm src/auto/config.cache .. This however is much easier by running make distclean which removes this cache of configure, but it wasn't obvious coming back to this after a while.

[user3751385]

Yeah, that doesn't install python3