patch 8.1.0128: building with MinGW does not work out-of-the-box commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/304925e75031751fc87b51e387eb079bf3ae2066 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sat Jun 30 16:27:02 2018 +0200 patch 8.1.0128: building with MinGW does not work out-of-the-box Problem: Building with MinGW does not work out-of-the-box. Solution: Add instructions for MSYS2. Set default WINVER. Add batch files to set $PATH for MSYS2.

README_src.txt for version 8.1 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.1-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!