Re: Building Vim on Windows

On Jun 24, 2013 8:53 PM, "Salman Halim" <salmanhalim@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Monday, June 24, 2013 11:03:50 AM UTC-5, Salman Halim wrote:
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>> > 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> Ben,
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> Thank you, again; I'll make the switch and see how it works out. I really appreciate your suggestions and responses.
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> Now, I wonder what can be done about the Borland compiler's issues.

Nothing until you post them. Most developers here are on linux like me (with gcc or clang or both) or on windows, but with mingw. With warnings posted we may be able to guess a fix, but without you will have to wait for someone with Windows and bcc which is a very unpopular choice.

Note that at least some problems (I would expect one or two, but I do not know how verbose is bcc with macros error) in if_py_both.h may be fixed by one of the patches posted here.

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