On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 08:58:25PM -0800, nickatron wrote: > > Thanks for all of the suggestions. The default gvim works great so far. I > found out you have to save the file as .cpp before it will do syntax > highlighting. It even indents things for me too. > > The only problem I have now is with MinGW. I installed it, and it works > great, but the process that I am going through is a bit tedious in order to > compile. There must be a better way than this... > > Copy .cpp file to "C:\MinGW\bin" > Open cmd > cd "C:\MinGW\bin" > g++ helloworld.cpp -o helloworld.exe > helloworld.exe
you need to set your %PATH% to include C:\MinGW\bin then you can execute your compilation command in whichever directory you save your source files. > > Is there some way to drag and drop compile, or better yet type a command in > gvim to compile? I would like to do this without installing a bunch of > plugins. first, read :help make and then if needed, google compiling from within vim -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
