On Saturday, December 27, 2014 7:47:14 PM UTC-2, Shiny Bling wrote: > Hi, > > I just released the first VIM installer which contains all(hopefully) 3rd > party dependencies. > > I have been using VIM on Windows for a while but I only recently started > using 'more recent' plugins. I ran into issues because quite often, the > plugins were written in some popular scripting language (ruby, python, ...) > So I ventured to hunt down required libraries but to get it fully working > turned out to be quite painful. It is not only about installing required > dlls, but also about making sure they actually work. > > I can only imagine that for a casual VIM user, this is close to impossible to > get working. > > So I decided to build VIM with all 3rd party dependencies myself in hope that > it will be useful for others as well. > > This really is a build with the dependencies built as well, not just them > being bundled in. Which in turn means that they share compiler optimisation > flags. It is possible to build it with, for instance, AVX instruction set > (modern Intel CPUs). > > The installer for Win7 and whole repository can be found at > https://bitbucket.org/kybu/vim-for-windows-single-drop > > The repository is structured in a way which allows for continuous updating of > the 3rd party dependencies. I will go into more detail later on in the readme > file. > > Please let me know whether any of you find my effort useful. > > Thanks, > kybu
I do because although my preferred OS is Linux, I am forced to use windows at my current job and your project will greatly help and simplify things for me. I really appreciate your effort. Thanks a lot. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
