AUR package

[wezm]

FYI I made a first pass at an AUR package for neovim-gtk: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/neovim-gtk-git. This makes it easy to build and install on Arch Linux:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/neovim-gtk-git.git
cd neovim-gtk-git 
makepkg -si

PS This thing is brilliant. The ligature support is fantastic and some of the best I've seen in any editor.

[daa84]

Thank you 😄 I'm not user of Arch so can't test it, but think I can put this instructions to README 👍 thanks

[LER0ever]

@wezm Thanks for the packaging. It works on my Manjaro Linux. However I'm still experiencing some problems.

• Cargo now is officially merged in to rustc package for Archlinux, so maybe you can remove cargo from makedep
• The application won't start (probably not a packaging issue) with rust backtrace, the output is

  RUST_BACKTRACE=1 nvim-gtk
  thread 'main' panicked at 'index out of bounds: the len is 1 but the index is 78', src/ui_model/line.rs:204
  stack backtrace:
  0: <unknown>
  1: <unknown>
  2: <unknown>
  3: <unknown>
  4: <unknown>
  5: <unknown>
  6: <unknown>
  7: <unknown>
  8: <unknown>
  9: <unknown>
  10: <unknown>
  11: <unknown>
  12: <unknown>
  13: g_main_context_dispatch
  14: <unknown>
  15: g_main_context_iteration
  16: g_application_run
  17: <unknown>
  18: <unknown>
  19: <unknown>
  20: __libc_start_main
  21: <unknown>

[wezm]

I'm basing the makedepends on what's done for the ripgrep, which is a rust tool in the community repos. It depends on cargo, which is specified as a package provided by rust.

[daa84]

Backtrace looks like some bug But I can check this only after about 2 weeks

[daa84]

Fixed. At least i think so :smile:

[codedmart]

I just tried to use the AUR package and am getting this error: error: no default toolchain configured.

[wezm]

It sounds like you have rustup installed without a default toolchain set. I had wondered about this. At the moment it think the PKGBUILD is using whatever cargo it finds in your path rather than the Arch packaged one (that is installed as part of the dependency on rust). I'll update the PKGBUILD to use absolute paths and that should fix it.

[wezm]

I pushed a revised PKGBUILD that uses the absolute path to cargo, give that a try and see if that helps.

[davidsierradz]

I have both neovim-qt and neovim-gtk AUR packages installed, I installed neovim-qt first then later on neovim-gtk, checking around this repo files I noticed that nvim_gui_shim.vim its a file shared by both projects, when I run :scriptnames from neovim-gtk I get that /usr/share/nvim/runtime/plugin/nvim_gui_shim.vim file sourced, but its the neovim-qt version not the neovim-gtk one, do not know where the neovim-gtk version is installed.

[wezm]

Interesting. I suppose the NeovimGtk one should have a unique name. I wonder what the consequence of having two versions of the same shim in the runtime path. I suppose alternatively we could create a nvim-gui-shim package that both UIs depend upon?

[davidsierradz]

This one by the neovim-qt author seems to be.

[daa84]

if call simple make install it will be placed at $(PREFIX)/share/nvim-gtk/ https://github.com/daa84/neovim-gtk/blob/a6e16d1cbdb64031855612ae25df31592cdee249/Makefile#L14 and this path added to rtp at start There is also setting that can change this path when nvim-gtk starts https://github.com/daa84/neovim-gtk/wiki/Configuration#runtime

[wezm]

Ok I'll have a look into changing the package to use or mirror the Makefile behviour.

[wezm]

I updated the PKGBUILD to better mirror the Makefile.

[davidsierradz]

Thanks, the file now it is installed on /usr/share/nvim-gtk/runtime/nvim_gui_shim.vim but its not sourced, according to help 'runtimepath':

    4. In nvim/site subdirectories for each directory in $XDG_DATA_DIRS.  
       This is for plugins which were installed by system administrator, 
       but are not part of the Neovim distribution. XDG_DATA_DIRS defaults 
       to /usr/local/share/:/usr/share/, so system administrators are 
       expected to install site plugins to /usr/share/nvim/site.

So it should be installed in /usr/share/nvim/nvim-gtk?