Compile Vim on Debian
True crafters build their own tool. Well actually I'm not so sure but in software world, you can do it quite easily. So I decided to pull vim sources from github and compile it on Debian. And, it was not as easy as I thought.
I won't write a long post about that, here is what I did to compile it with python and X11 clipboard support:
$ sudo apt install libx11-dev libxtst-dev libxt-dev libsm-dev libxpm-dev
$ LDFLAGS="-rdynamic" ./configure --with-x --enable-python3interp=yes \
--enable-rubyinterp=yes --prefix=/usr --with-features=huge
$ make
Remarks:
- My Debian is 11.2.
- I could have used
sudo apt build-dep vim-nox, but it wanted to install a lot of unneeded stuff. - I have a Python version installed from source, so I don't apt installed a -dev package
- It seems that
-rdynamicflag is needed in order to use python interpreter. It's not obvious at all
Hooray, I have my own Vim and now a trace of what I did for this great achievement in my developer's life (not)!