Arch Linux User Repository

You will also need to install libt3config from AUR before proceeding:

yay -S libt3config

To further elaborate the PKGBUILD edit process, get current version numbers from:

• https://os.ghalkes.nl/libtranscript.html
• https://os.ghalkes.nl/t3/libt3key.html
• https://os.ghalkes.nl/t3/libt3window.html

Then clone all of these repos from AUR:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/libtranscript.git  
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/libt3key.git  
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/libt3window.git

In each of these, replace the value ofpkgver in PKGBUILD with each of the current version numbers found at the corresponding links.

Once you've made the pkgver value replacements, run:

updpkgsums

Then run makepkg for each of these three:

makepkg -si

When complete, then you merely have to install tilde as usual:

yay -S tilde

Note: the AUR packages for libtranscript, libt3key and libt3window are out of date; instead of making changes as described in my comment below, one can simply update the relevant PKGBUILD files to point to the new version tarballs and it will build and install correctly. Flagged the relevant AUR packages as out of date.

Optionally, adding aarch64 works too, built everything for the Raspberry Pi 5.

Note: confirmed adding aarch64 to the PKGBUILDs works, compiled it for the Raspberry Pi 5.

@danielzim

I tried it and Tilde runs! There is a bug handling mouse input in a terminal I use, but it is probably localized to that terminal (ghostty) than Tilde. XFCE4-Terminal works fine with Tilde. Thanks for experimenting.

I haven't contributed to AUR before, so I'm not sure how to submit changes here, but I have a few fixes for libtranscript, libt3key and libt3window (which depends on libt3key). This is what I did:

To get tilde to install and run:

1. Cloned libtranscript from AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/libtranscript.git ;

2. Ran makepkg -i, got error;

3. Modified 2 files:

4. File PKGBUILD:

5. Added --libdir=/usr/lib to line 25:

  ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --with-ucm2ltc

• File libtranscript/src/libtranscript-0.3.3/config.pkg to fix error about opendir/readdir/closedir/dirent.h/stdint.h:
• Added #include <stdio.h> in line 67 and removed [0] in the puts call in line 78:

        unset CONFIGFLAGS
        # Test for all required functionality

        clean_c
        cat > .config.c <<EOF
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <dirent.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
        DIR *dir;
        struct dirent *entry;
        uint16_t foo;

        dir = opendir(".");
        entry = readdir(dir);
        puts(entry->d_name);
        closedir(dir);
        return 0;
}
EOF

        test_link "opendir/readdir/closedir/dirent.h/stdint.h" || error "!! Some required functionality is not available. See config.log for details."

1. Ran makepkg -i --noextract, successful build and install;

2. Cloned https://aur.archlinux.org/libt3key.git ;

3. Ran makepkg -i, got error;

4. Modified libt3key/src/libt3key-0.2.10/config.pkg to fix error about curses:

5. Added #include <term.h> in line 147:

        unset CURSES_LIBS CURSES_FLAGS
        clean_c
        cat > .config.c <<EOF
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <curses.h>
#include <term.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
        int args[9], error, fd;

        if (setupterm(NULL, fd, &error) == OK) {
                tigetstr("cup");
                tigetnum("colors");
                tigetflag("km");
                tputs("\033[0m", 1, putchar);
                tparm("\033[0m", args[0], args[1], args[2], args[3], args[4], args[5], args[6], args[7], args[8]);
        }
        return 0;
}
EOF

1. Ran makepkg -i --noextract, successful build and install;

2. Cloned https://aur.archlinux.org/libt3window.git ;

3. Ran makepkg -i, got error;

4. Made same modification as above to libt3window/src/libt3window-0.4.1/config.pkg;

   • Added #include <term.h> in line 124;

5. Ran makepkg -i --noextract, successful build and install;

6. Ran paru -Suy tilde, installed successfully;

7. Ran tilde successfully;

Build fails due to issues with libtranscript and libt3key.

libt3key build failure yields message complaining about inability to find curses/tinfo library. In particular the configure script outfit states it is unable to find the curses header file.

The issue with libtranscript is a bit more involved. The config.log output from the configure step suggests that it is failing the mandatory check for opendir/readdir/closedir/dirent.h/stdint.h

My kernel version is 6.12.6-arch1-1. Happy to provide more detailed log output from both libraries' config.logs if helpful.