Vim 64-bit Builds

Here you can download the latest 64-bit builds of Vim for Windows. These builds are updated at least every week.

Major features

• Compiled with full optimizations for speed.
• 64-bit python/dyn (Python 2.7) support.
• 64-bit python3/dyn (Python 3.3) support.

Download

The latest version can always be downloaded here: Download

Install

• Extract the archive into C:\Program Files\Vim using 7-zip.
• Open an administrator command prompt and navigate to C:\Program Files\Vim\vim73 and run install.exe to install.

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Build from source

Those who would like to build Vim from source themselves may be interested in my build scripts.

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2010 (VS2012 causes strange problems).

Get Vim sources

Let's call our working directory C:\build, where Vim will be compiled and packaged.

cd C:\build
hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim

build.bat

Place build.bat inside the vim/src directory and invoke it to build. Customize the build options to your liking. The following options are used to build the binaries provided above. Although I do not want to include support for Arabic or Farsi, it seems that those options are bing overrideen by FEATURES=HUGE. Also, I believe that OPTIMIZE=SPEED (which uses /O2) is a better option than the default OPTIMIZE=MAXSPEED (which uses /Ox).

set VCDIR="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC"
call %VCDIR%\bin\x86_amd64\vcvarsx86_amd64.bat
%VCDIR%\bin\nmake -f Make_mvc.mak CPU=AMD64 GUI=yes OLE=yes PYTHON=C:\Python27 DYNAMIC_PYTHON=yes PYTHON_VER=27 PYTHON3=C:\Python33 DYNAMIC_PYTHON3=yes PYTHON3_VER=33 CSCOPE=yes FEATURES=HUGE ARABIC=no FARSI=no NETBEANS=yes OPTIMIZE=SPEED

package.bat

Invoke package.bat to build a distribution package that can be placed in C:\Program Files\Vim.

@set SRC=C:\build\vim
@set DST=C:\build\vim73
xcopy %SRC%\runtime %DST% /D /E /H /I /Y %*
xcopy %SRC%\src\xxd\xxd.exe %DST%\* /D /Y %*
xcopy %SRC%\src\GvimExt\gvimext.dll %DST%\* /D /Y %*
xcopy %SRC%\src\*.exe %DST%\* /D /Y %*