Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Re: [ANN] Vim for Windows build, contains all 3rd party dependencies

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Shiny Bling <kybuliak@gmail.com> wrote:
> My main reason doing the build is that Vim Windows builds like the
> above don't include 3rd party dependencies(ruby, python, ...). You
> have to install them yourself. I needed ruby for some plugin and when
> I added it, the whole Vim process was crashing. There was also a case,
> when I downloaded some Vim build and it required Ruby version, which
> was not yet released at http://rubyinstaller.org/

You can use the dynamic flags for several dependencies to avoid this.
My builds use them for these major ones:

  +gettext/dyn
  +iconv/dyn
  +lua/dyn
  +multi_byte_ime/dyn
  +perl/dyn
  +python/dyn
  +python3/dyn
  +ruby/dyn

> Also, I had to modify Vim and Ruby source code (not makefiles) to
> actually get them working properly.

The Cream builds are always vanilla, depending on an upstream fix on
build or feature bugs. Sometimes I'm motivated to track them down
myself, but usually they are simply omitted. :)

> When I started I thought it would be just a matter of compiling it
> all but it turned out to be quite long endeavour.

You've got that right! I maintain a DOS batch script for everything
from the download/update to the NSIS installer build. Over the years
it has grown to 1,300 lines!


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SteveHallArchitecture http://SteveHallArchitecture.com

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