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

On Wednesday, 31 December 2014 19:51:20 UTC+1, Steve Hall wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Shiny Bling <kybu...@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

In order for that to work reliably, the end user has to install exact dlls which were used during the build. Otherwise, Vim can crash if there are compiler ABI incompatibilities(mingw vs Microsoft compiler) or incompatible function signature changes in the dlls. Let alone the fact, that the end user has to install dlls of languages he might have no idea about only because they are required by plugins. I think that for a smooth experience, it should be all distributed together. That is how it works in Linux distributions.

>
> > 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!

I can feel your pain ;)

kybu

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