Thursday, February 3, 2011

Re: Starting out with VIM and C++

On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 08:58:25PM -0800, nickatron wrote:
>
> Thanks for all of the suggestions. The default gvim works great so far. I
> found out you have to save the file as .cpp before it will do syntax
> highlighting. It even indents things for me too.
>
> The only problem I have now is with MinGW. I installed it, and it works
> great, but the process that I am going through is a bit tedious in order to
> compile. There must be a better way than this...
>
> Copy .cpp file to "C:\MinGW\bin"
> Open cmd
> cd "C:\MinGW\bin"
> g++ helloworld.cpp -o helloworld.exe
> helloworld.exe

you need to set your %PATH% to include C:\MinGW\bin

then you can execute your compilation command in whichever directory you
save your source files.

>
> Is there some way to drag and drop compile, or better yet type a command in
> gvim to compile? I would like to do this without installing a bunch of
> plugins.

first, read
:help make

and then if needed, google compiling from within vim

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