Compile vim 7.3 in Mac OS X 10.6.6

Posted by on 03/02/2011 Leave a comment (12) Go to comments

Update: I can now compile vim without any tweak on OS X 10.7.4 with Homebrew without Macports. Also check the comments from jay and jefk, which make the compilation as easy.

The default vim of Max OS X is 7.2 without +python. I need pyflakes plugins, so I have to compile it. I like using terminal, so I don’t use MacVim.

configure and make with simple options:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-perlinterp=yes --enable-pythoninterp=yes --with-features=huge
make

I got such error:

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
"_iconv", referenced from:
_buf_write_bytes in fileio.o
_readfile in fileio.o
_my_iconv_open in mbyte.o
_string_convert_ext in mbyte.o
(maybe you meant: _my_iconv_open)
"_iconv_close", referenced from:
_buf_write in fileio.o
_readfile in fileio.o
_my_iconv_open in mbyte.o
_convert_setup_ext in mbyte.o
"_iconv_open", referenced from:
_my_iconv_open in mbyte.o
(maybe you meant: _my_iconv_open)
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [vim] Error 1
make: *** [first] Error 2

From google, I know that libiconv from macports doesn’t support x86_64.
Update: Thanks to jay’s remind, the libiconv comes with system should be fine. So, to specify the library, use the following to configure

LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib ./configure --enable-perlinterp=yes --enable-pythoninterp=yes --with-features=huge

The solution is to download and compile and install libiconv. Download from http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/, compile and make & make install

CFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64' CCFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64' CXXFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64' ./configure
make
sudo make install

After install, it should be OK to compile vim. But I failed, and spent a whole afternoon. Finally, I removed the src, and use “hg up -C” to recover to get a clean copy, and then succeed! Amazing, maybe there were some “cache” files to record the old libiconv library path. Anyway, I could use vim7.3 in Mac OS X with +python now. :D

Update: Just remove all files exclude configure in src/auto, and reconfigure without cache.
Update: It works on Lion, too.

Mac OS X,
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12 Comments.

  1. Mike Dacre 04/12/2011 at 09:55

    Just so everyone knows, if you use any of –enable-pythoninterp=yes –enable-python3interp=yes –enable-rubyinterp=yes you will get this same error.

    To get around you need to explicitly set LDFLAGS. For ruby I installed the MacPorts version for this and used that for linking (/opt/local/lib). For python, the default install is in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions//lib where version is your python version.

    To install vim fully I used the following flags:

    export CPPFLAGS=”-I/usr/local/include -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/includ
    e -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/include -I/opt/local/include -arch x86_64″

    export CXXFLAGS=”-I/usr/local/include -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/includ e -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/include -I/opt/local/include -arch x86_64″

    export CFLAGS=”-I/usr/local/include -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/include -I/opt/local/include -arch x86_64″

    export LDFLAGS=”-L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib -L/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Version s/2.7/lib -R/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib -L/Library/Frameworks/Python.f ramework/Versions/3.1/lib -R/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib -L/opt/local/l ib -R/opt/local/lib”

    This worked great for me!

  2. Mike Dacre 04/12/2011 at 10:18

    Sorry, I need to modify my previous comment.

    I kept failing on ruby. In the end I gave up, what I tried is below. My guess is that by building your own 64bit ruby with the right flags – probably both shared and static libraries – you could get it to work, provide you give the linker the right path. I don’t use ruby though, so I gave up.

    Good luck

    ————————————

    To use –enable-rubyinterp=yes with MacPorts ruby you need to use /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8 You can also use the default ruby with /usr/lib/ruby/1.8

    So LDFLAGS:

    export LDFLAGS=”-L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib -L/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Version s/2.7/lib -R/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib -L/Library/Frameworks/Python.f ramework/Versions/3.1/lib -R/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib -L/usr/lib/rub y/1.8 -R/usr/lib/ruby/1.8 -L/opt/local/lib -R/opt/local/lib”

  3. wwwjfy 04/13/2011 at 10:25

    Well, I compiled without python3 and ruby, and no extra errors.
    However, thanks for sharing. It’ll be surely useful when I go for python3. :)

  4. ackly 08/27/2011 at 18:27

    i had a similar problem with the ruby interp, it turns out the vim binary was fine, but when running `make install` a call to `strip` on the binary is run rendering it unusable.

  5. jay 09/15/2011 at 12:16

    I believe I’ve found a very simple solution to this problem.

    ISSUE:
    During the MacVim build process, the path /opt/local/lib/ is searched for libraries. If you have used macports to install libiconv, the linker will find it before the system version of libiconv ( found in /usr/lib/ ). The macports version is not x86_64 while the system version is.

    SOLUTION:
    mkdir ~/temp
    sudo mv /opt/local/lib/libiconv* ~/temp/

    Go about the MacVim build. (Don’t forget to run ‘make clean’)

    sudo mv ~/temp/libiconv* /opt/local/lib/

    FEEDBACK:
    Let me know if there is a more elegant solution, or if my solution is broken and why.

  6. wwwjfy 09/16/2011 at 01:14

    It just works. However, I’m using some packages like zsh, so difficult to do the compilation without it. I should compile vim before I install macports.
    It’s still good to have a newer libiconv than the system one.
    I’m inspired, that I can specify library path for it. I’ll try it later.

    Thank you very much ! :)

  7. springrider 09/25/2011 at 13:17

    great thanks! saved my time!

  8. N Heinrichs 09/30/2011 at 10:12

    @Mike Thanks for those exports, did the trick for me on lion with vim 7.3 –with-features=huge

  9. Dive Reviews 02/04/2012 at 01:26

    Mike Dacre’s comment worked for me to run

    ./configure –with-features=huge –enable-pythoninterp

    Note that there’s an additional space that needs to be removed in the LDFLAGS command

    -L/opt/local/l ib
    s/be
    -L/opt/local/lib

  11. jefk 03/22/2012 at 22:51

    It also works if you use LIBS="/usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib" ./configure .... although vim compiled without that addition on my machine running Mac OS X 10.6.8 as well.

    So try again, but make sure you are building against system libs only!


    cd vim73
    export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
    sudo mv -i /opt/local /opt/local-off
    #sudo mv -i /usr/local /usr/local-off
    sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib
    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-perlinterp=yes --enable-pythoninterp=yes --with-features=huge
    make
    make test # Test results: ALL DONE

    otool -L src/vim
    # ...
    # /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)
    # ...
    # /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Python (compatibility version 2.6.0, current version 2.6.1)
    # ...

    sudo make install
    sudo mv -i /opt/local-off /opt/local
    #sudo ditto -V /usr/local-off /usr/local

  12. wwwjfy 03/25/2012 at 23:01

    That’s right. I just tried on OS X 10.7.4, and it just works without any tweaks.
    I’m guessing the problem is about macports (I’m using Homebrew now).

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