Compiling vim with MinGW results in mingw-get install --reinstall binutils=2.22-1

Question

I am trying to compile VIM with native support for ruby and am using MinGW for that.

The compilation goes as expected until the make file tries to execute windres -DWIN32 -DWINVER=0x0400 -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400 ..... vim.rc gobj/vimres.res

This step failes with a windres: unexpected version string length 68 != 32 + 8. I am at a complete loss what kind of error this is and how I am supposed to fix it.

As far as I can see I downloaded the newest version of both the vim sources and MinGW environment.

Searching the internet hinted me at trying to do a mingw-get install --reinstall binutils=2.22-1 which I did. But I still get the same error message.

Answer 1

It seems that the

mingw-get install --reinstall binutils=2.22-1

did not actually install a previous version.

Instead, with

mingw-get remove binutils
mingw-get install  binutils=2.22-1

I was able to install the previous version. Now, the windres step works.

Answer 2

I just compiled Vim with MinGW/MSYS and among others dynamic ruby support. Check out this gist for a guide through the process with gvim74.exe installation file as output.