compiling VIM 7.2 with GTK2 under debian etch

To install GTK2 is not an issue since we can use the apt-get install libgtk2.0 libgtk2.0-dev to install gtk2 with dev libraries.

The issue I encountered was when I tried to compile VIm 7.2 with GTK2, which could not be found:

checking for GTK - version >= 2.2.0... no
checking for GTK - version >= 1.1.16... yes; found version 1.2.10

Then I decided to compile GTK2 on my own.

I failed when trying to install GTK2.14 with GLIB2.18.4 because some function definitions changed.

Finally the versions I successfully installed were:

- gtk2.8.20
- glib2.9.6
- pangoo1.11
- atk1.25.2
- cairo1.8.6
- pixman0.13.2

then to compile VIM i used (/opt/gtk2 is the prefix where I installed just compiled gtk2):

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/gtk2/lib/pkgconfig"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gtk2/lib
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/gtk2/include"
export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/gtk2/lib"
 ./configure --prefix=/opt/vim/ --enable-perlinterp --enable-rubyinterp --enable-multibyte --enable-gui --with-features=big

Finally GTK2 found:

checking for GTK - version >= 2.2.0... yes; found version 2.8.20

happy VImming :)