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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.
  • 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