Trying to build with MinGW

[Bram Moolenaar]

On my Windows 10 laptop I'm trying to build a non-GUI debug version with
MinGW. It has a few complaints, first one is that INT_MAX was not
defined. I solved that by including <limits.h> in vim.h.

Building with the terminal feature fails with
LPROC_THREAD_ATTRIBUTE_LIST undefined.

I disabled FEAT_TERMINAL for now, then the linking fails with
"-municode" not being defined.

Is this perhaps because my MinGW version is too old?


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[John Marriott]

On 08-Mar-2020 00:39, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> On my Windows 10 laptop I'm trying to build a non-GUI debug version with
> MinGW. It has a few complaints, first one is that INT_MAX was not
> defined. I solved that by including <limits.h> in vim.h.
>
> Building with the terminal feature fails with
> LPROC_THREAD_ATTRIBUTE_LIST undefined.
>
> I disabled FEAT_TERMINAL for now, then the linking fails with
> "-municode" not being defined.
>
> Is this perhaps because my MinGW version is too old?
>
>

Hi Bram,

Yeah I reckon it's old. I have been using mingw64 to build both vim and
gvim for years now with no problems.

It could be time to update.

In case you were wondering, I use the latest x64 builds from here
(currently gcc v9.2.1): https://gcc-mcf.lhmouse.com
I've also used builds from here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64-dgn/files/mingw-w64
I've not tried it but I think builds from here work as well (gcc v9.1):
https://nuwen.net/mingw.html
For an older gcc release:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/8.1.0/threads-posix/seh

Cheers
John

[Bram Moolenaar]

Thanks for the hints.

I tried the second entry in INSTALLpc.txt, using MSYS2 with MinGW, but
the website appears to be down.

It would be nice if we have one way that "just works"...

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[Ken Takata]

Hi,

It seems that the msys2 site is down these few days.

You can download the installer from here for now:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/latest/download

Regards,

Ken Takata