Re: Building Vim for Windows (like "Vim Without Cream")

On Saturday, August 25, 2012 10:02:30 AM UTC-4, Michael Henry wrote:
> All,
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> I'm interested in compiling Vim for Windows. Ideally, I'd like
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> to replicate the "Vim Without Cream" build associated with the
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> "Cream" project:
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> http://cream.sourceforge.net/
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> The Cream FAQ didn't seem to have anything about building from
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> source:
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> http://cream.sourceforge.net/faq.html
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> I was hoping to get hold of an installation guide and ideally a
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> full build script that would go with it. I had no luck looking
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> at the source for Cream (though I'm looking for the "without
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> Cream" variant):
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> http://sourceforge.net/projects/cream/files/Cream/0.43/
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> I'm probably overlooking something obvious; hopefully someone
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> can point me in the right direction.
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> Note that I don't have to have "Vim Without Cream" specifically,
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> but it's a nicely done package with a "huge" Vim build and a
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> nice installer. It does nearly everything I'd like, but I would
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> like to customize certain things about the build (for example,
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> I'd like to include the ruby bindings).
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> I looked for alternatives. There are some tips on the Vim wiki,
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> but they seem out of date or not complete enough to replicate a
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> huge build from all sources, ideally with an installer as
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> well:
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> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Build_Vim_in_Windows_with_Cygwin
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> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Build_Vim_in_Windows_with_Visual_Studio
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> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Build_Python-enabled_Vim_on_Windows_with_MinGW
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> I took a quick look at Tony's guide:
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> http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compile.htm
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> I didn't try these instructions because Cygwin gcc no longer
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> allows the -mno-cygwin flag.
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> Does anybody have any suggestions?
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> Thanks,
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> Michael Henry

Hi, I have been building vim successfully either vim visual studio or cygwin but including only perl and python, not ruby.
For visual studio assuming you have perl in C:\Perl and python in C:\Python27
and that you have the vim source folder somewhere, you just have to go into the folder src type msvc2010.bat and then

nmake -f Make_mvc.mak DYNAMIC_PYTHON=yes PYTHON="C:\Python27" PYTHON_VER=27 PERL="C:\Perl" PERL_VER=512 DYNAMIC_PERL=yes FEATURES=HUGE OLE=yes GUI=yes

this works for me, building vim with visual studio.

For building vim with cygwin, I was also stuck for a while because of that gcc option no longer being valid, but it turns out it is not a big deal.

I copied the file Make_cyg.mak to Make_cyg1.mak
and then in the file Make_cyg1.mak replaced the lines

CC = gcc
by
CC = i686-pc-mingw32-gcc

and
INCLUDES += -mno-cygwin
by
INCLUDES +=

Then I have this small perl script that I use to compile vim in cygwin
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
#!/usr/bin/env perl

# compile vim for windows using a cross compiler in cygwing

my $python = "PYTHON=/cygdrive/c/Python27 PYTHON_VER=27 DYNAMIC_PYTHON=yes";
my $perl = "PERL=/cygdrive/c/Perl PERL_VER=512 DYNAMIC_PERL=yes";

my $makefile = "Make_cyg1.mak";

my $jflag = "-j5";

my $cmd_vim = "make -B -f $makefile GUI=no $python $perl $jflag vim.exe";
my $cmd_gvim = "make -B -f $makefile GUI=yes $python $perl $jflag gvim.exe";

print "$cmd_vim\n";
system "$cmd_vim";
print "$cmd_gvim\n";
system "$cmd_gvim";
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


and then I just run this perl script to compile vim in cygwin.


I guess maybe the file Make_cyg.mak should be modified in the distribution so
that people can use that directly.

I would also like to see a guide on how to compile vim 64 bits.

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