Re: diff not working in Cream install on Windows XP 64-bit

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Oct 4, 4:13 pm, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I get an E97 every time I try a diff, even after setting diffexpr to
>> be empty. I've checked that I can create temporary files with a
>> writefile([strftime("%c")],tempname()).
>>
>> So, this doesn't seem to be caused by tmp file access, a bad diffexpr,
>> or any of the other usual suspects. See the following cmd.exe session,
>> in a directory made by a fresh gvim 7.3.289 install (latest "Vim
>> without Cream"):
>>
>> C:\>cd "Program Files (x86)\vim\vim73"
>>
>> C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim73>dir *.exe
>>  Volume in drive C is Local Disk
>>  Volume Serial Number is EA9A-15F2
>>
>>  Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim73
>>
>> 07/28/1999  08:15 PM            73,728 diff.exe
>> 08/29/2011  12:24 PM         2,667,008 gvim.exe
>> 10/04/2011  04:06 PM            45,910 uninstall.exe
>> 08/29/2011  12:25 PM         2,494,464 vim.exe
>> 08/29/2011  12:24 PM             8,192 vimrun.exe
>> 08/29/2011  12:24 PM            15,872 xxd.exe
>>                6 File(s)      5,305,174 bytes
>>                0 Dir(s)  206,321,045,504 bytes free
>>
>> C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim73>.\diff.exe --version
>>
>> C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim73>echo %errorlevel%
>> -1073741819
>>
>> C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim73>
>>
>> Has anyone had success using the diff.exe included in the standard
>> Cream install, on Windows XP 64-bit?
>
> Is there anyone out there running vim on Windows XP 64-bit? I want to
> know whether I'm alone in this.
>

I was able to get diff working by installing GNU Diff Utils:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/diffutils/2.8.7-1/diffutils-2.8.7-1.exe/download

as suggested here:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Running_diff

But, I've never needed to do this before. Why was this necessary?

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