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

On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Shiny Bling <kybuliak@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I just released the first VIM installer which contains all(hopefully) 3rd party dependencies.

I have been using VIM on Windows for a while but I only recently started using 'more recent' plugins. I ran into issues because quite often, the plugins were written in some popular scripting language (ruby, python, ...) So I ventured to hunt down required libraries but to get it fully working turned out to be quite painful. It is not only about installing required dlls, but also about making sure they actually work.

I can only imagine that for a casual VIM user, this is close to impossible to get working.

So I decided to build VIM with all 3rd party dependencies myself in hope that it will be useful for others as well.

This really is a build with the dependencies built as well, not just them being bundled in. Which in turn means that they share compiler optimisation flags. It is possible to build it with, for instance, AVX instruction set (modern Intel CPUs).

The installer for Win7 and whole repository can be found at https://bitbucket.org/kybu/vim-for-windows-single-drop

The repository is structured in a way which allows for continuous updating of the 3rd party dependencies. I will go into more detail later on in the readme file.

Please let me know whether any of you find my effort useful.

Thanks,
  kybu

Hello,

A while ago, I reported that I was unable to keep using regular yanks with 'clipboard' set to 'unnamed' because I wasn't seeing anything outside Vim (the problem started happening after Vim 7.4.3xx). Windows 7. I figured that it must be a quirk of my build process (MingW) so downloaded this installation. Same problem: yanking anything without explicitly prefixing it with "* doesn't put it on the system clipboard.

A few other people had seen this at the time, also, but I guess none of them were developers so it never got resolved. If someone has any idea where in the source code I might look for clipboard or yank operations, I'd be appreciative of the pointer as it's preventing me from upgrading to a newer Vim distribution.

Thank you.

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Salman

I, too, shall something make and glory in the making.

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