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equalsraf / gist:c52c2261ff3671ccbd32
Last active January 2, 2020 02:17
Cross Compile Neovim

Before you start you need a Mingw-w64 toolchain for Linux, try installing the mingw-w64 package (Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora?) or get it from the Mingw-w64 website.

Build dependencies

$ mkdir deps-mingw
$ cd deps-mingw
$ cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../cmake/mingw32-w64-cross-travis.toolchain.cmake ../third-party/
$ make
$ cd ..
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equalsraf / gist:4685f7aef022a36c26d5
Last active November 15, 2017 22:13
Building Neovim with MSVC 2015

Check the pull request for the changes and the main issue for discussion. If you run into trouble check the Known Errors section at the end, or drop me a comment.

Requirements

  • MSVC 2015, cl should report > 19.*
  • Python 2 (required by libuv to get gyp) - python 3 will not work, see the issue
  • Git (required by libuv to get gyp)
  • libintl
  • You might need the Windows 10 SDK to be installed (unverified, please drop me a comment in #810, specially if you are in Windows8 or lower.)
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equalsraf / NeovimCygwin.md
Last active June 22, 2024 09:35
Neovim in Cygwin

TLDR; no, libuv doesn't work in Cygwin just yet, see at the bottom.

Requirements

I tested using the master branch (9d3449852bd35c9283948186d0259c1bf73b8579 or later)

I installed the following in the cygwin setup

  • gcc-c++ make cmake pkg-config libtool
#!/usr/bin/python3
#
# Little script to check if Appveyor is stuck
#
# The return code is (2) if the build is considered stuck, (0) if not
# stuck, and (1) for other errors
import json
import sys
import requests

executable()

os_can_exe() used by executable() actually checks PATHEXT. Behaviour in Vim is:

executable('no_such_file') returns 0
executable('file') returns 1 if file.bat,file.exe,etc exist ($PATHEXT)
executable('file.bat')returns 1
executable('file.exe')returns 1

This could lead to the misconception that, for example, executable("file.bat") being 1 implies that system(["file.bat"]) is expected to succeed, which is not true. But this is an issue with system([]) in windows and not with executable(). The notion of executable in Windows is fundamentaly a shell concept, because unlike UNIX there no notion of shebang and permission bits, that allows execution of non binary files.

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equalsraf / neovim-escaping.md
Last active October 16, 2017 04:48
Figuring out neovim windows escaping issues

The problem

I thought this was fixed earlier, but the following fails to execute if shell=cmd.exe

:echo system('cd /d "c:\Windows"')

Take the following script

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equalsraf / neovim_system_string.md
Last active November 5, 2023 17:46
Notes on neovim system('...') in Windows for #6359

Vim's system('string') interface is not always straightforward in Windows, its behaviour can be downright unexpected involves an intricate set of options. Its primary purpose its to execute a command in the shell (see &shell) in simple terms we can think that calling system('some command') is equivalent to spawning a process with the following arguments

[&shell, &shellcmdflag, 'some command']

and sometimes this might be true but it also might not. Consider the following examples (I'm running in gVim 7.4/Windows 8)

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equalsraf / 7059.md
Last active August 13, 2017 15:04
cmd.exe vs msys2 shell

CMake Generators

CMake has two generatores using Make for windows.

  • MinGW Makefiles expects to run from the cmd shell (uses mingw32-make)
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equalsraf / windows-nvim-build.md
Last active November 10, 2021 09:54
New instructions for building nvim in Windows

[WIP]

Windows/MSYS2

In Windows we build using the toolchain provided by MSYS2 - the resulting binaries DO NOT link against the MSYS2 runtime.

Start by installing the necessary dependencies

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equalsraf / neovim-haiku.md
Last active October 8, 2017 09:44
Try to build neovim in haiku

TLDR; it did not work, apparently the major blocker is libuv support

1. dependencies (i.e. nvim's third-party/)

Haiku already has some deps, lets use its packages. But for libvterm, etc we need to use third-party

mkdir .deps
cd .deps