"James Britt (rubydev)" <james / rubyxml.com> wrote in message
news:PGEPJIFLPEPOHCKEEEIKGEJNCHAA.james / rubyxml.com...
> I notice that the exe does not display any nice toolbar icons or dropdown
menus,
> like the default distribution binary does.
>
> I managed to get Vim compiled last night, under mingw, but it too lacks
the
> menus and toolbar, though I think I turned pretty much every option in
feature.h
>
> They're not essential, but is there a way to get them when building from
source?
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
I assure you they work, the probleme is your runtime environment. What you
should do is copy the exe in the same place as your standard gvim.exe is,
you can rename it and this way you are sure to keep the old one. Another
option is to download the vim runtime files at
ftp.vim.fr/unix/vim60-rt1.tar.gz and ftp.vim.fr/unix/vim60-rt2.tar.gz
then you unpack them and stick the exe in the runtime directory.  Otherwise
if you downloaded the source distribution using the bz2 compressed file you
can just stick the exe in the runtime subdirectory.
Benoit