patch 8.1.0743: giving error messages is not flexible commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/f9e3e09fdc93be9f0d47afbc6c7df1188c2a5a0d Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sun Jan 13 23:38:42 2019 +0100 patch 8.1.0743: giving error messages is not flexible Problem: Giving error messages is not flexible. Solution: Add semsg(). Change argument from "char_u *" to "char *", also for msg() and get rid of most MSG macros. (Ozaki Kiichi, closes #3302) Also make emsg() accept a "char *" argument. Get rid of an enormous number of type casts.

:: command to build big Vim 64 bit with OLE, Perl and Python.
:: First run: %VCDIR%\vcvarsall.bat x86_amd64
:: Ruby and Tcl are excluded, doesn't seem to work.
SET VCDIR="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\"
SET TOOLDIR=E:\
%VCDIR%\bin\nmake -f Make_mvc.mak CPU=AMD64 GUI=yes OLE=yes PERL=E:\perl524 DYNAMIC_PERL=yes PERL_VER=524 PYTHON=%TOOLDIR%python27 DYNAMIC_PYTHON=yes PYTHON_VER=27 PYTHON3=%TOOLDIR%python35 DYNAMIC_PYTHON3=yes PYTHON3_VER=35  %1 IME=yes CSCOPE=yes