Re: installation issues on Windows 8.1

On 14/02/14 05:12, Steve Hall wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:22 PM, KF <kfleong.rm@gmail.com
> <mailto:kfleong.rm@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Does your current installer installs different versions of
> > gvimext.dll depending on 32-bit or 64-bit Windows? Currently the
> > installer I used has that.
>
> It does not. I'm not even sure Vim itself will compile as a 64-bit
> version. I build on a 64-bit Win8.1 machine but my :version has always
> reported a 32-bit gvim.exe. If I ever figured out how to build a
> 64-bit binary, I'd look into the same for gvimext.dll.
>
> Frankly, the 32-bit is blazingly fast and capable, not sure I could
> even tell the difference with anything better.
>

Yeah, one of the differences is that the 32-bit binary is limited to
editing files no bigger than 2 gigabytes, but hopefully that limitation
won't be much of a problem to most users in most cases.


Best regards,
Tony.
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