Cant build in my school

[dxrxbxk]

Problem

when i try to build it gives this error:

CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.22/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message):
  Could NOT find Gettext (missing: GETTEXT_MSGMERGE_EXECUTABLE
  GETTEXT_MSGFMT_EXECUTABLE)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake-3.22/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:594 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  /usr/share/cmake-3.22/Modules/FindGettext.cmake:81 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
  src/nvim/po/CMakeLists.txt:1 (find_package)

The solution is quite easy the comment this line in src/nvim/po/CMakeLists.txt
the line find_package(Gettext REQUIRED) which happens to be the first line needs to be commented

Steps to reproduce

make

Expected behavior

compiling

Neovim version (nvim -v)

NVIM v0.10.0-dev-d2c9dc056

Vim (not Nvim) behaves the same?

no

Operating system/version

Ubuntu

Terminal name/version

Terminal

$TERM environment variable

xterm-256color

Installation

Ubuntu 22.03

[clason]

But it is; it's required to compile a (fully) working Neovim.

[dundargoc]

Ubuntu 22.03

Is this even a real ubuntu version? Googling gives "did you mean ubuntu 22.04".

[zeertzjq]

Did you follow the instructions at https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/master/BUILD.md#ubuntu--debian?

[justinmk]

The only reason this issue is still open is because it originally asked:

Why is the REQUIRED package not required to build the program ?

The answer (which is just a detail of our build system) is:

1. REQUIRED is the best way to get useful messages from cmake if we can't find a library that we want to use
2. For this particular case, gettext is needed to provide translations. That's not strictly necessary to build nvim, but it is a basic feature that we support so of course we need to mark it as required.

For your particular case, as @zeertzjq mentioned you need to install the gettext package on your system. As documented.

[dxrxbxk]

Well i forgot to say that gettext is already installed