How to compile vim 64-bit on Windows using MinGW-64?

It doesn't matter where the original program comes from make

, it just needs to be able to execute the Makefile. To compile vim with MinGW with a specific compiler and Make_ming.mak

makefile, I used the following:

• Export the environment variable CC
  
  to the appropriate compiler (in my case it was a 32-bit name i686-pc-mingw32-gcc
  
  ).
• Export the environment variable LD
  
  to the appropriate linker (in my case it looked similar, but with a suffix -ld
  
  instead -gcc
  
  ). Make sure they are found on $PATH
  
  : I'm not sure what you need to do for make make to work, so just avoid the need for escaping.
• Export the environment variable prefix
  
  pointing to the directory where mingw is located (in my case it was /usr/i686-mingw32
  
  : I am cross-compiling).
• Export environment variable vim_cv_toupper_broken
  
  value yes
  
  . I'm not sure why I did this.

• Finally run make:

  cd {path/to/vim/repository}/src
  make -f Make_ming.mak FEATURES=HUGE CROSS_COMPILE=i686-pc-mingw32- OPTIMIZE=SPEED VIMRUNTIMEDIR="C:\\vim73\\runtime" CROSS=yes ARCH=i686
  
        
  
          
          
          
        
  
      

  ... You definitely don't need the CROSS_COMPILE
  
  and options CROSS
  
  , but ARCH
  
  should be omitted (or equal x86_64
  
  ). VIMRUNTIMEDIR
  
  should point to the location where you plan to install vim. However, not sure about the escape.

Exporting environment variables should probably be done with

set var=value

      

        
        
        
      

    

eg

set CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc

      

        
        
        
      

    

(use the actual name of the executable). If that doesn't work, try moving them to the make command line:

make -f Make_ming.mak CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc LD=… …

      

        
        
        
      

    

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And variables for python (must also be present on the command line):

PYTHON="P:\\ath\\to\\directory\\with\\python" PYTHONINC="P:\\ath\\to\\directory\\with\\python\\header\\files" PYTHON_VER=27 PYTHON_VER_LONG=2.7.5

      

        
        
        
      

    

... (If using the python msi installer PYTHONINC

, this is %PYTHON%\\include

. This is a 90% directory whose final path component include

. Should contain at least a file Python.h

.)