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

On 21/08/10 16:16, sc wrote:
> On Saturday 21 August 2010 04:29:43 Jeri Raye wrote:
>
>> 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]
>
>>> If not, which (open source?) compiler do you need for that
>>> on a windows XP machine?
>
>> I'll give this a try
>> http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/howto/win32-compile/Vim-Compile-
>> Win32-HOWTO.pdf
>
> yikes -- that pdf is OLD -- looking at
>
> http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net
>
> i see the first search box is labeled "Search the latest
> documentation (Updated 2009-06-13 for Vim 7.2.197):"
>
> i think the site should be updated or whacked...
>
> sc
>

If it was updated for 7.2.197 it should apply mutatis mutandis to 7.3
with the following differences:
- 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.
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