Re: missing diff.exe

FlashBurn wrote:
> On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 3:09:58 PM UTC-5, Christian Brabandt wrote:
>> On Do, 12 Feb 2015, FlashBurn wrote:
>>
>>> I'm running gVim 7.4 on Windows 7. I've never used vimdiff command
>>> before and decided to use it now and as it turns out diff.exe is
>>> missing. Does anybody have the same issue? Is there a special flag I
>>> need to be using during compilation to have this executable?
>> A diff is distributed along with Vim. It should sit in your vim/vim74
>> directory.
>>
>> Best,
>> Christian
>> --
>> In Städten glaubt man, es gehöre zum guten Ton, nicht einmal zu
>> wissen, wer in demselben Hause wohnt.
>> -- Adolph Freiherr von Knigge
> Somehow I don't have it.
>
I'm not aware of a diff program that is distributed with vim; perhaps
some windows bundler does that. Its not in the vim74.tar.bz2, though.

I suggest getting a diff -- try looking for one using Google/Yahoo/etc.
Using Yahoo and searching for "diff Windows" yielded
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/diffutils.htm .

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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