Build Vim in Windows with Cygwin

==Comments==
Dan Sharp has an end-to-end solution for almost all problems for Vim compiling on Windows:
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/sharppeople/vim/howto/Vim-Compile-Win32-HOWTO/index.html

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Use mingw32 -- gcc for windows. Builds native exe.

From http://www.mingw.org/

MinGW: A collection of freely available and freely distributable Windows specific header files and import libraries combined with GNU toolsets that allow one to produce native Windows programs that do not rely on any 3rd-party DLLs.

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Note that the resulting gvim.exe built from cygwin package is "native".
It has no dependancy on cygwin.dll at all.

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The gvim.exe produced does not use cygwin-style paths. I've got a lot of cygwin mounts that I would like to use.
:If you want a Vim which understands Cygwin-style paths and runs seamlessly from a Cygwin bash prompt, I recommend the Console Vim build that comes with Cygwin. You will still need a different executable such as the one described above (gvim.exe and/or vim.exe) to run in Windows outside the Cygwin "Unix-like" environment. --[[User:Tonymec|Tonymec]] 16:03, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
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The CVS command "cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.vim.org:/cvsroot/vim co vim" no longer works as the domain cvs.vim.org no longer exists. I was looking to this help to give me a more definitive way to compile vim under Cygwin64. The packaged vim in the current distro does not get along with packages under .vim/bundle/vundle (I believe because the version is too old), and finds a lot of things it doesn't understand. Compiling would be great, except that I ran into problems. I compiled it in a way that defaulted into UNIX (probably wrong, but Cygwin behaves as a UNIX-like system, so it was the closest thing I could think of). [[Special:Contributions/216.105.80.60|216.105.80.60]] 03:29, October 2, 2013 (UTC)