Re: Building Vim on Windows

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:

On Monday, June 24, 2013 11:03:50 AM UTC-5, Salman Halim wrote:
>
> Thank you for this; I was wondering: does building with MinGW change GVim into a GNU-ish application? Can I still use paths like "c:\test\some\file.txt"? While I use the forward slash almost exclusively, it is nice to occasionally be able to take a file path someone else gave me and just :e or :sp it.
>

Nope, MinGW just uses unix-like tools to build a native Windows application. I actually can't use cygwin paths from my MinGW Vim build, it's all native Windows paths.

You can use the forward slash on Windows, though, like :e c:/test/some/file.txt. This doesn't depend on what you used to compile.

Ben,

Thank you, again; I'll make the switch and see how it works out. I really appreciate your suggestions and responses.

Now, I wonder what can be done about the Borland compiler's issues.

Salman

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