Vim

I'm trying to install vim on apf9328, then I will explain on this page the story.

Source

The source of vim can be found on the official site here [1]. I downloaded it and unpacked on my /opt/ directory.

tar -jxvf vim-7.2.tar.bz2

Libraries

To be functional, vim need libc and ncurse. NCurse can be installed via buildroot in menu Package Selection for the target -> Graphic libraries and applications (graphic/text) -> ncurse. Once compiled, simply copy libncurses.a and libncurses.so on your /usr/lib/ target rootfs directory.

buildroot/project_build_arm/armadeus/root/usr/lib/libncurses.a
buildroot/project_build_arm/armadeus/root/usr/lib/libncurses.so

Compiling

The first problem is to know how cross-compile vim on x86 platform for arm platform.

There is a mail to explain how to do that here [2], I'm reading it and I will try this.