dotfiles/windows

Windows Setup

Configure Shell

• Install MSYS2 w/ MinGW-w64 to C:\msys64
  • Open C:\msys64\mingw64.exe
  • Run pacman -S base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain git
  • Use C:\Users\<user> as the terminal $HOME by editting C:\msys64\etc\nsswitch.conf and changing the db_home value to windows.
• You may need to work around an issue with envsubst.exe - you'll know there's a bug if git displays "': not a valid identifierline 89: export: dashless" or rebase complains about "new_count".
  • To patch, cd into /mingw64/bin and run mv envsubst.exe envsubst.exe_backup. Now run pacman -S gettext and verify that which envsubst reports back /usr/bin/envsubst.
  • Bug report is at https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/issues/735
• Map caps to left-ctrl using https://sharpkeys.codeplex.com/
• Symlink dotfiles to ~/.dotfiles with cmd //c 'mklink .dotfiles drive:\path\to\dotfiles'
• Symlink files in the dotfiles windows folder using cmd //c 'mklink .some-file .dotfiles\some-file'
• Symlink appropriate files in the root dotfiles directory
  • Ignore all zsh files
  • Don't symlink .vim folder because Plugged will fail to install the plugins. Just make a copy.

Compiling Vim

• If for some reason you want to compile Vim on Windows, do the following:
  • Git clone vim from Github
  • cd vim/src
  • make -f Make_ming.mak ARCH=x86-64 OPTIMIZE=MAXSPEED STATIC_STDCPLUS=yes FEATURES=HUGE PYTHON="C:/Python27" PYTHON_VER=27 DYNAMIC_PYTHON=yes PYTHON3="C:/Python3" PYTHON3_VER=361 DYNAMIC_PYTHON=yes

Setting up Vim

You have to make a copy of the vim folder. For some unknown reason the Plugged scripts don't work when running them on a symlinked .vim directory. Can also symlink most of the directories in the vim folder. You have to symlink using the full path instead of something like ~\.dotfiles\vim, otherwise it won't work. The full path is something like c:\users\michael\.dotfiles\vim. Be careful when removing symlinks as it will delete the linked source as well.

Setting up Cygwin

• Can create symlinks to dotfiles using the git bash shell. The cygwin home directory is likely going to be C:\cygwin\home\<username>.
• Build rlwrap

Setting up Clojure

• Install Lein: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/technomancy/leiningen/stable/bin/lein.bat