Re: Install Fails on Windows
On Sat 29-Apr-06 3:49pm -0600, Bram Moolenaar wrote: There are two setups, the Unix one and the MS-Windows one. If you use the Unix setup you need to do make install. Thus uses the files in the ../runtime directory that were unpacked from the Unix tar archive. If you use the MS-Windows setup you should unpack the vim70xxrt.zip file, which puts the runtime files below the src directory, without a runtime directory. Then you can use the install.exe. The problem with this is that there is only one current beta and that is the the unix form of the Vim tree. Even if I copy my executables to runtime\, install complains with: [c:\vim\vim70f\runtime]install This program sets up the installation of Vim 7.0f BETA ERROR: Install program not in directory vim70f This program can only work when it is located in its original directory The solutions provided by Suresh Govindachar and Georg Dahn both appear to work, but involve copying the contents of runtime\ on top of vim70.f\ (which should produce some pretty ugly results when CVS is back again :-) I was hoping there was a simple way of enabling dosinst.c to work with the unix tree. Since Alpha and Beta versions have worked just fine without installing, and there are no patches to apply to the older vim7 files that are are available, I'll just not install until the release and subsequent patch releases. Thanks to Suresh, Georg and you for your comments. -- Best regards, Bill
Re: Install Fails on Windows
Bill McCarthy wrote: Compiling with MVC or Ming, the exe files are copied from c:\vim\vim70f\src to c:\vim\vim70f (the usual place). But running install produces the following: [c:\vim\vim70f]install This program sets up the installation of Vim 7.0f04 BETA ERROR: Cannot find filetype.vim in C:\vim\vim70f It looks like you did not unpack the runtime archive. You must unpack the runtime archive vim70frt.zip before installing. The problem is that unzipping the archive places filetype.vim in c:\vim\vim70f\runtime (it would have been placed in the same directory as the exe files in all release versions of Vim - in this case in c:\vim\vim70f\). Doesn't dosinst.c need to reflect this new placement? There are two setups, the Unix one and the MS-Windows one. If you use the Unix setup you need to do make install. Thus uses the files in the ../runtime directory that were unpacked from the Unix tar archive. If you use the MS-Windows setup you should unpack the vim70xxrt.zip file, which puts the runtime files below the src directory, without a runtime directory. Then you can use the install.exe. -- SIGIRO -- irony detected (iron core dumped) /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ ///sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org/// \\\help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org///
RE: Install Fails on Windows
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Bill McCarthy wrote: Compiling with MVC or Ming, the exe files are copied from c:\vim\vim70f\src to c:\vim\vim70f (the usual place). But running install produces the following: [c:\vim\vim70f]install This program sets up the installation of Vim 7.0f04 BETA ERROR: Cannot find filetype.vim in C:\vim\vim70f It looks like you did not unpack the runtime archive. You must unpack the runtime archive vim70frt.zip before installing. The problem is that unzipping the archive places filetype.vim in c:\vim\vim70f\runtime (it would have been placed in the same directory as the exe files in all release versions of Vim - in this case in c:\vim\vim70f\). Doesn't dosinst.c need to reflect this new placement? There are two setups, the Unix one and the MS-Windows one. There is a third! Building on Windows using unix sources. After the build, there is a src/../runtime directory. After the build, one needs to move the *.exe files from src/ one level up and move everything inside runtime/ one level up. After these two moves, install.exe works fine -- it knows it is on Windows. If you use the Unix setup you need to do make install. Thus uses the files in the ../runtime directory that were unpacked from the Unix tar archive. If you use the MS-Windows setup you should unpack the vim70xxrt.zip file, which puts the runtime files below the src directory, without a runtime directory. Then you can use the install.exe.
