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Very straight-forward question. I have downloaded mingw32 and the Vim source code and I have edited Make_mind.mak to use the correct Python version and location. I'm located in the src directory and I issue the command:

mingw32-make.exe -f Make_ming.mak gvim.exe

The compilation is successful, but when I run :version it says that the executable is 32 bit, and surely enough, it refuses to load my 64 bit python27.dll library.

What do I have to do to compile gvim.exe as a 64 bit executable instead?

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    Do you really need to build it from source? There is a 64 bit binary at code.google.com/p/vim-win3264
    – heavyd
    Commented Jan 11, 2013 at 20:00
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    @heavyd: I have tried every conceivable precompiled binary in the physical universe. Trust me, none of them work 100%. Either they are 32 bit, or they are an outdated vim version, or they target the wrong Python version or none at all, or, in the ONE instance where I found a 64bit version of vim 7.3 compiled targeting Python 27, I get this fatal error every time I try using Python from gVim.
    – Hubro
    Commented Jan 11, 2013 at 20:10
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    I'm assuming then that you did try that link which is gVim 7.3 with Python 2.7 support. To compile a 64-bit executable you'll need to start with a toolset that supports 64-bit compilation: mingw-w64.sourceforge.net
    – heavyd
    Commented Jan 11, 2013 at 20:23
  • As @heavyd says, you need to install the 64 bit version of Mingw. However, if your operating system is only 32 bit it might not be that straightforward.
    – ChrisF
    Commented Jan 12, 2013 at 11:48

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You can check out my releases of Vim for Windows to save yourself some time. It's built using MinGW-w64 toolchain (don't worry, you don't need its runtime libraries for my build to work). Have support for both x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) architectures, "huge" feature set, and scripting interfaces for most popular programming languages:

  • Python;
  • Ruby;
  • Lua;
  • Perl.
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I managed to compile a 64-bit version of gVim.exe using the full version of Visual Studio 2010 and the commands from this superuser answer:

nmake -f Make_mvc.mak GUI=yes CPU=AMD64 PYTHON=C:\Python27 DYNAMIC_PYTHON=yes PYTHON_VER=27

It's probably possible with the 64-bit mingw toolset linked by heavyd too, but I couldn't find anything that worked on Windows and I wasn't about to start messing with Cygwin.

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