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Compiling Vim on Win32 HOWTO

Author: Dan Sharp

Copyright © 2004 Dan Sharp

2004-03-02

Revision History
Revision 1.022004-03-02dws
Updated for changes through 6.2.311

Abstract

The goal of this HOWTO is to provide information on compiling Vim 6.2 on Win32 systems with one of the supported compilers: MSVC++, BCC, and GCC (MinGW and Cygwin). If you already have an executable version of Vim that contains the features you want, then you probably don't need this file.

This document is published under the Vim License. See http://vimdoc.sf.net/htmldoc/uganda.html#license for information.

This document is available in HTML, PDF, and plain text formats from http://vimdoc.sf.net/howto/win32-compile

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Preparation
2.1. Getting the Source
2.1.1. CVS
2.1.2. FTP
2.1.2.1. Source
2.1.2.2. Patches
2.1.3. A-A-P
2.2. External Interfaces
2.2.1. Scripting Interfaces
2.2.1.1. Perl
2.2.1.2. Python
2.2.1.3. Ruby
2.2.1.4. Tcl
2.2.2. Multilanguage Support
2.2.2.1. IConv
2.2.2.2. Gettext
2.2.3. Source Code Browsers
2.2.3.1. Cscope
2.2.3.2. SNiFF+
3. Compiling
3.1. Commonalities
3.2. Compiler Specifics
3.2.1. MSVC++
3.2.1.1. Command line
3.2.1.2. IDE
3.2.2. BCC 5.x
3.2.3. GCC - MinGW
3.2.3.1. Cross-compiling from Linux
3.2.3.2. Building with non-dynamic interpreter support
3.2.4. GCC - Cygwin
3.2.4.1. Win32 vs. Unix
3.2.4.2. Win32
3.3. Additional Goodies
4. Links
5. Appendix A: Pre-Win32 Systems
5.1. MS-DOS
5.2. Windows 3.1x
5.3. Windows NT with OpenNT
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