Very useful, Thanks

Second video times out around the 1:20 mark when the source is downloaded. I then get the feedback form which cannot be cancelled.

Very annoying

Useful, though this pop up is really annoying.

Again, very cool and thanks again!

Had a little trouble compiling just vim.exe, had to do: make -f make_ming.mak instead and let it build all files.

Very low voice, I am not a dog with special ears ,, and I don't know but ls command etc wern't working on my Windows ? x-(

great video thanks

It'll be my first task at work tomorrow :)

Thanks!

nice. Worked for me. And saved a deal of that precious time stuff.

Thanks :) very helpful

Hi

I tried the same steps and I am getting the same errors as Eric Lake. Any help?

Works on Vista too !!

Although it's a blatant hack, you can copy python25.dll to your Vim runtime directory and rename it as python24.dll. Vim warns about a version number mismatch, but it seems to work.

Jack,

Sorry about that. I just watched the first video in the series and saw what you mean. Thanks for the great tutorial.

Eric,

This video is a second in a series of the two. The first video covers installing mingw compiler. That's what I used to compile VIM. I renamed the mingw make executable to "make.exe" and then made sure mingw appeared in my windows path before all other compilers that may have a make utility.

What are you using to compile vim in the video? I have tried the make included in unxutils but I get the following error:

make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.

make: *** [gobj/buffer.o] Error 2

I have tried with both the ActiveState version of Python and the installer that comes from Python.org.

thanks,i like it .

Thanks Jack for a great video! It's even better than I expected. I basically did the same thing the hard way (by installing an alternate version to get the updated executable and then plugging it into the appropriate spot in the vim directory of the official version. There were some problems with the windows installation program, so I had to use the standard installation, not the alternate installation). Your way is much, much better. I am sure that the Ruby crowd appreciates your effort as well. I will try it myself, shortly.

Thanks again,

Jerol

Ah, thanks for the tip on the link creations. I'll be sure to get it right next time:-)

Hi Jack - great video. This looks really useful! I'm not going to be in a rush to compile vim on Windows any time soon but it is kinda cool knowing that this guide is here.

Are you going to let the vim/mingw people know about your videos? I bet they have users who'd love to watch them.

I made 2 tiny changes in your description text - your hyperlinks used the wrong format. You'd used:

'Python 2.5<http://www.python.org/>'

with straight-single-quotes, no space before the first angle bracket and no training underscore, the correct format is:

`Python 2.5 <http://www.python.org/>`_

with backward-single-quotes, a space before the angle bracket and a training underscore. RestructuredText is a bit fussy, you just have to copy the example in that right sidebar character for character :-)

Cheers,

Ian.

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