Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, vterm-module

[joefromct]

OS: MacOS
Emacs Version 27.0.50 (9.0) compiled from source with the following configure options:

./configure  --with-ns --without-makeinfo\
 --with-imagemagick --with-jansson\
 --with-mailutils  --with-multicolor-fonts 

As in the subject line, i'm getting Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, vterm-module.

Followed the master branches README instructions exactly, and even with a make run still getting said error.

Is there some shared library setting I need to be compiling with? I'm not exactly sure how shared/linked libraries work on osx/with emacs/etc.

I have read and tried some suggestions from #92, and #85 to no avail (yet). I'll play with it a bit more this evening.

Any tips appreciated, -Joe

Update

I just downloaded 26.2 from emacsformacos.com and vterm started without any issues.... It's either something regarding 27.x or my compile options. Still investigating.

[joefromct]

FYI, I changed my configure line to include --with-modules and now all seems to work...

Here's my final configure line:

./configure  --with-ns --without-makeinfo\
 --with-imagemagick --with-json\
 --with-mailutils  --with-modules

Leaving this open in case a check or readme addition should be added? thanks

[eddelbuettel]

Ditto -- just cloned and installed (on Ubuntu 19.04, emacs 26.1) and all I got to show now is 'No such file or directory, vterm-module'. Any hints?

[akermu]

@eddelbuettel Could you verify that module-file-suffix is not nil? If it is please configure you Emacs with --with-modules. If this doesn't solve your problem, please open another issue.

[eddelbuettel]

@akermu Asking C-h v about it says 'nil'. I am running the standard Debian / Ubuntu package. I have no intention of building Emacs from source. If I had missed that that this may have been a requirement here. I'll just move on without vterm then. So can you clarify, please: should this work, or did it require a rebuild?

[akermu]

@eddelbuettel It does require a custom build as neither the ubuntu nor the debian package have modules support enabled.

You might want to try to compile emacs with modules support, it's very easy:

git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git
cd emacs
git checkout emacs-26.2
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-modules
make

[eddelbuettel]

Thanks for the clarification. I'll wait til the maintainer of the Emacs package decides to adopt modules.