Re: How to get ruby support for gvim73 on a windows XP machine.

Tony Mechelynck wrote on 22-8-2010 22:10:
>>> Jeri Raye wrote on 20-8-2010 17:03:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm using gvim73 on windows xp.
>>
>>> [snip]
>>
>>>> I'm a complete newbie on compiling gvim.
>>>> But how to do that on windows XP?
>>
>>> [snip]
>>
[snip]
> - You can now download the latest Vim sources from Bram's Mercurial
> repository, see
> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Getting_the_Vim_source_with_Mercurial
> - If you decide to get the source archive over ftp, the extra and lang
> archives have been retired (the "main" archive contains everything); and
> of course the archive's filename includes 7.3 instead of 7.2
> - See also http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compile.htm
> with the following caveats:
> - The Cygwin C compiler/linker for native-Windows may have a longer
> name than just gcc.exe: lines 43-47 of the current Make_cyg.mak seem to
> mean that CC should be set to gcc-3 (which in turn requires overriding
> the makefile default) and -L/lib/w32api added to EXTRA_LIBS
> - Or you may prefer using MinGW gcc instead (with the Make_ming.mak
> makefile and similar but not necessarily identical environment settings)
> - The Make_cyg.mak mentions in its text "Last Change: 2010 Feb 24" but
> actually it was modified on 2010-08-17; for instance it mentions the Lua
> interface which hadn't yet been added to Vim in February.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.

gvim 7.2.0 (offical release aug 2008) and 7.3 (just relaesed) give boths
-ruby when I asked it with: "vim --version"

There isn't any other way to get ruby code to work with gvim, besides
compiling it?
I'm kinda scared in compiling the whole sources.

Rgds,
Jeri

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