Compiling vim...

Figured I had to post this...


I've been trying to compile command-line vim 7.3 on Mac OS X 10.7. I have the latest `hg clone`d version of vim. I'm stuck on ncurses.

If I `./configure` with no options, I get the following error:

checking --with-tlib argument... empty: automatic terminal library selection
checking for tgetent in -ltinfo... no
checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
no terminal library found
checking for tgetent()... configure: error: NOT FOUND!
You need to install a terminal library; for example ncurses.
Or specify the name of the library with --with-tlib.

If instead I try `./configure --with-tlib=ncurses`

checking --with-tlib argument... ncurses
checking for linking with ncurses library... configure: error: FAILED

I have Xcode 4.1. As far as I can tell, ncurses is available:

$ file /usr/lib/libncurses.*
/usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
/usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library x86_64
/usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib (for architecture i386): Mach-O dynamically linked shared library i386
/usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib: Mach-O dynamically linked shared library i386
/usr/lib/libncurses.dylib: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
/usr/lib/libncurses.dylib (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library x86_64
/usr/lib/libncurses.dylib (for architecture i386): Mach-O dynamically linked shared library i386


Then I changed my PATH from /usr/local/bin... to /usr/bin.....

The problem was trying to use my /usr/local/bin/gcc instead of the mac default /usr/bin/gcc. Something about my locally installed gcc (4.6.1) caused major problems.


I also eventually had to do this command:

LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib CFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64' CCFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64' CXXFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64' ./configure --enable-perlinterp --enable-pythoninterp --enable-cscope --with-features=huge

and then had to make sure my default python was NOT pointing to enthought!