2013-08-12

Install vim74 from source

Vim 7.4 released!

What are you waiting for?

install vim7.4 for mac

HomeBrew has update the vim formula to the latest 7.4! woo!

require 'formula'
class Vim < Formula
  homepage 'http://www.vim.org/'
  # Get the base 7.4 tarball from Vim.org. But once patches start again, go
  # back to tracking Debian unstable here:
  # http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/v/vim/
  url 'http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.4.tar.bz2'
  sha1 '601abf7cc2b5ab186f40d8790e542f86afca86b7'
  head 'https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/'
  # We only have special support for finding depends_on :python, but not yet for
  # :ruby, :perl etc., so we use the standard environment that leaves the
  # PATH as the user has set it right now.
  env :std
  LANGUAGES         = %w(lua mzscheme perl python tcl ruby)
  DEFAULT_LANGUAGES = %w(ruby python)
  option "override-system-vi", "Override system vi"
  option "disable-nls", "Build vim without National Language Support (translated messages, keymaps)"
  LANGUAGES.each do |language|
    option "with-#{language}", "Build vim with #{language} support"
    option "without-#{language}", "Build vim without #{language} support"
  end
  depends_on :hg => :build if build.head?
  depends_on :python => :recommended
  def install
    ENV['LUA_PREFIX'] = HOMEBREW_PREFIX
    language_opts = LANGUAGES.map do |language|
      if DEFAULT_LANGUAGES.include? language and !build.include? "without-#{language}"
        "--enable-#{language}interp"
      elsif build.include? "with-#{language}"
        "--enable-#{language}interp"
      end
    end.compact
    opts = language_opts
    opts << "--disable-nls" if build.include? "disable-nls"
    # Avoid that vim always links System's Python even if configure tells us
    # it has found a brewed Python. Verify with `otool -L`.
    if python && python.brewed?
      ENV.prepend 'LDFLAGS', "-F#{python.framework}"
    end
    # XXX: Please do not submit a pull request that hardcodes the path
    # to ruby: vim can be compiled against 1.8.x or 1.9.3-p385 and up.
    # If you have problems with vim because of ruby, ensure a compatible
    # version is first in your PATH when building vim.
    # We specify HOMEBREW_PREFIX as the prefix to make vim look in the
    # the right place (HOMEBREW_PREFIX/share/vim/{vimrc,vimfiles}) for
    # system vimscript files. We specify the normal installation prefix
    # when calling "make install".
    system "./configure", "--prefix=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}",
                          "--mandir=#{man}",
                          "--enable-gui=no",
                          "--without-x",
                          "--enable-multibyte",
                          "--with-tlib=ncurses",
                          "--enable-cscope",
                          "--with-features=huge",
                          "--with-compiledby=Homebrew",
                          *opts
    system "make"
    # If stripping the binaries is not enabled, vim will segfault with
    # statically-linked interpreters like ruby
    # http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/detail?id=114&thanks=114&ts=1361483471
    system "make", "install", "prefix=#{prefix}", "STRIP=/usr/bin/true"
    ln_s bin+'vim', bin+'vi' if build.include? 'override-system-vi'
  end
end

Just use

1	brew install vim --with-python --with-ruby --with-perl --with-lua --with-tcl

Wait or take a coffee break! And enjoy vim 7.4.

By the way, when you want to update brew but failed because of some formula you’ve editted which results in merge…

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cd `brew --prefix`
git checkout .
brew update

install vim7.4 for ubuntu

A little complex but very easy!

install the dependencies

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sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libgnome2-dev libgnomeui-dev \
libgtk2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libbonoboui2-dev \
libcairo2-dev libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev python-dev ruby-dev libperl-dev

Note. I’m not very clear about the dependencies but python-dev ruby-dev libperl-dev are for python, ruby, perl interp.
For me, that’s enough.

remove the old vim

1	sudo apt-get remove vim vim-runtime gvim vim-tiny vim-common vim-gui-common

download the source and compile to install

wget http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.4.tar.bz2
tar xvf vim-7.4.tar.bz2
cd vim
./configure \
    --prefix=/usr \
    --enable-perlinterp=dynamic \
    --enable-pythoninterp \
    --enable-rubyinterp \
    --enable-luainterp=dynamic \
    --enable-cscope \
    --enable-gui=auto \
    --enable-gtk2-check \
    --enable-gnome-check \
    --enable-multibyte \
    --enable-fontset \
    --with-features=huge \
    --with-x \
    --with-ruby-command=/usr/bin/ruby \
    --with-compiledby="Lihuazhang <lihuazhang@hotmail.com>" \
    --with-python-config-dir=/usr/lib/python2.7/config-x86_64-linux-gnu \
# --with-python3-config-dir=/usr/lib/python3.3/config-3.3m-x86_64-linux-gnu

Wait for a seconds and sudo make install once the configure is compelted.

set your vim as your default editor

# The prefix=/usr should be specified!
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/editor editor /usr/bin/vim 1
sudo update-alternatives --set editor /usr/bin/vim
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/vi vi /usr/bin/vim 1
sudo update-alternatives --set vi /usr/bin/vim

Then done. Enjoy vim7.4.

I have personally tested both installation.

If you have any question, please ping me. Or

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