Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> Bill McCarthy wrote:
>
>> Compiling with MVC or Ming, the exe files are copied from
>> c:\vim\vim70f\src to c:\vim\vim70f (the usual place). But
>> running install produces the following:
>>
>> [c:\vim\vim70f]install
>> This program sets up the installation of Vim 7.0f04 BETA
>>
>> ERROR: Cannot find filetype.vim in "C:\vim\vim70f"
>> It looks like you did not unpack the runtime archive.
>> You must unpack the runtime archive "vim70frt.zip"
>> before installing.
>>
>> The problem is that unzipping the archive places filetype.vim
>> in c:\vim\vim70f\runtime (it would have been placed in the same
>> directory as the exe files in all release versions of Vim - in
>> this case in c:\vim\vim70f\).
>>
>> Doesn't dosinst.c need to reflect this new placement?
>
> There are two setups, the Unix one and the MS-Windows one.
There is a third! Building on Windows using unix sources.
After the build, there is a src/../runtime directory.
After the build, one needs to move the *.exe files from src/
one level up and move everything inside runtime/ one level up.
After these two moves, install.exe works fine -- it knows it
is on Windows.
> If you use the Unix setup you need to do "make install". Thus
> uses the files in the ../runtime directory that were unpacked
> from the Unix tar archive.
>
> If you use the MS-Windows setup you should unpack the
> vim70xxrt.zip file, which puts the runtime files below the src
> directory, without a runtime directory. Then you can use the
> install.exe.
