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Ramon Tayag
Asked: 2011-09-13 16:26:37 +0800 CST

Compiling vim-gnome with ruby support

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I followed this blog post to compile gvim with ruby support. However, when I make, I get this error:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lruby-static
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
link.sh: Linking failed
make[1]: *** [vim] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ramon/vim/src'
make: *** [first] Error 2

I searched around for people who had this problem, and couldn't find any. This guy just changed computers altogether.

And yes, I have ruby:

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i686-linux]

What do I do?

11.04

3 Answers

  1. Compiling things which link to something usually requires something-dev package installed. Do you have ruby-dev installed?

    apt-get install ruby-dev

    should do the trick

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  2. According to this, you're set - just install vim-gnome or vim-gtkand you'll have gvim with Ruby support. No need to compile it yourself.

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  3. Update for Ubuntu 18.04... to get Ruby support I had to uninstall vim-gtk3 and vim-gnome. Here's a list of ok-to-install packages. With only these, +ruby shows in vim --version | grep ruby and Command-T works.

    $ dpkg -l '*vim*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name              Version             Architecture Description
+++-=================-===================-============-===================================================================
un  gvim              <none>              <none>       (no description available)
ii  vim               2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1 amd64        Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
un  vim-addon-manager <none>              <none>       (no description available)
un  vim-athena        <none>              <none>       (no description available)
ii  vim-common        2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1 all          Vi IMproved - Common files
un  vim-doc           <none>              <none>       (no description available)
un  vim-gnome         <none>              <none>       (no description available)
ii  vim-gtk           2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1 amd64        Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - with GTK2 GUI
un  vim-gtk3          <none>              <none>       (no description available)
ii  vim-gui-common    2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1 all          Vi IMproved - Common GUI files
un  vim-lua           <none>              <none>       (no description available)
ii  vim-nox           2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1 amd64        Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - with scripting languages support
un  vim-perl          <none>              <none>       (no description available)
un  vim-python        <none>              <none>       (no description available)
un  vim-ruby          <none>              <none>       (no description available)
ii  vim-runtime       2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1 all          Vi IMproved - Runtime files
un  vim-scripts       <none>              <none>       (no description available)
un  vim-tcl           <none>              <none>       (no description available)
ii  vim-tiny          2:8.0.1453-1ubuntu1 amd64        Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - compact version
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