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Compiling Vim on Fedora 20

26 May 2014

Vim is my editor of choice. I was recently playing around with a Fedora installation and realized that even the vim-enhanced package available via yum was not as feature-complete as the one on my MacBook (compiled with homebrew's help).

I decided I'd need to compile it from scratch. Here's how I did that:

Note: I already had multiple versions of Ruby compiled from a previous Ansible script I ran. You may have to get Ruby before this, either through yum or by compiling it yourself.

# first update yum
sudo yum update -y

# remove any old versions of vim
sudo yum remove vim

# install extra deps
sudo yum install -y lua lua-devel luajit luajit-devel \
    ctags mercurial python python-devel \
    python3 python3-devel tcl-devel \
    perl perl-devel perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS \
    perl-ExtUtils-Xspp perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder

# symlink xsubpp (perl) from /usr/bin to the perl dir
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/xsubpp /usr/share/perl5/ExtUtils/xsubpp

# use ~/src as our compile dir
mkdir -p ~/src && cd ~/src

# clone the vim repo
hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg vim

# configure it
cd vim
./configure --enable-fail-if-missing \
    --enable-luainterp --with-luajit \
    --enable-perlinterp \
    --enable-pythoninterp \
    --enable-python3interp \
    --enable-rubyinterp \
    --enable-tclinterp \
    --enable-multibyte \
    --enable-fontset

# install it in /usr/share/vim/vim74
VIMRUNTIMEDIR=/usr/share/vim/vim74 sudo make install

And there you have it! That should install the supporting files to /usr/share/vim/vim74 and the new Vim binary to /usr/local/bin/vim.

The full Ansible script I've used here is available in my dotfiles.

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