Re: vim fails to build under Cygwin on XP

[Daniel Horecki <dashmoho%gmail.com@localhost>]

vim does not support Windows XP or Vista since version 9.0.0496 (3 years ago).
If you really want to compile on that platform, use pkgsrc 2022Q3.

On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 at 21:30, kryptik <kryptik%thrashnet.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hello, I am running Cygwin on a Windows XP box with pkgsrc stable. Most
> packages I've tried build just fine, but I am unable to build vim
> (specifically, vim-share) at all:
>
> ...
> configure: updating cache auto/config.cache
> configure: creating auto/config.status
> config.status: creating auto/config.mk
> config.status: creating auto/config.h
> ===> Building for vim-share-9.2.0357
> bmake: don't know how to make vim. Stop
>
> bmake: stopped making "vim" in
> /usr/pkgsrc/editors/vim-share/work/vim-9.2.0357/src
> *** Error code 2
>
> Stop.
> bmake[1]: stopped making "install" in /usr/pkgsrc/editors/vim-share
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.
> bmake: stopped making "install" in /usr/pkgsrc/editors/vim-share
>
> Does anyone have any tips? I would like to be able to build and install
> vim on here, if possible.
>
> Thank you,
> kryptik



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