Vim completion with YouCompleteMe on windows

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I am desperately trying to get YouCompletMe working on windows, the author clearly says that there is no official support for windows so that's fair enough. Though there is a wiki to build it on windows and you find 1/2 people online claiming they succeded in building it on windows without semantic support for C/C++...

I was wondering if I could use the compiled ycm_core.pyd from someone else or if for obvious reasons that would not work.

I am using vim7.4 (I have both 32/64 bit versions) + python2.7 + python3.2

Unfortunatley I found only 2, and both have done it too long ago (YCM ask me to recompile so back to square 1) — statquant, Sep 09 '13 at 09:01

score 17 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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You can download archives of drop-in YCM plugin containing binaries (ycm_core.pyd) from me: Vim YouCompleteMe for Windows. Both x86 and x64 architectures are provided.

If you also need bleeding-edge LLVM/Clang, you can download the binaries from me as well: LLVM for Windows. Both x86 and x64 architectures are provided.

If you are looking for up-to-date Vim with Python support, you can download the binaries from me once again: Vim for Windows. Both x86 and x64 architectures are provided, as well as support for both Python 2 (which is required by YCM) and Python 3 altogether.

Common Pitfalls

Don't forget to have Python 2 DLL (e.g. python27.dll) and Python 2 Interpreter (python.exe) in the PATH environment variable;
Don't forget to have libclang.dll in the PATH environment variable (recommended) OR right next to ycm_core.pyd;
Make sure that architectures of all 3 components (LLVM/Clang, Vim, YCM) match;
You can find some hints on configuration in my other answer.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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answered Sep 19 '13 at 16:23

Alexander Shukaev

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You might want to add links to your binaries on the YCM Windows wiki page: https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/wiki/Windows-Installation-Guide – Valloric Nov 20 '13 at 18:52
Looks like your [links](https://bitbucket.org/Haroogan/vim-youcompleteme-for-windows) are broken. – KFL Aug 07 '15 at 06:17
@AlexanderShukaev, is it just me or the links are broken again? – rasgo Sep 07 '15 at 00:45
You can find them in the downloads section: https://bitbucket.org/Alexander-Shukaev/vim-for-windows/downloads – bobismijnnaam Oct 10 '15 at 16:18

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 15 '16 at 20:45

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Adding to the accepted answer (SE won't let me comment), I got Alexander Shukaev's binaries from here: https://bitbucket.org/Alexander-Shukaev/vim-youcompleteme-for-windows/downloads

(in case the links on the other page are still broken).

answered Mar 15 '16 at 20:45

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this should be in comment – Usman Maqbool Mar 15 '16 at 21:03
@Usman--agreed, but it's my first post in SE and it says I must have 50 reputation to comment (on others' posts). You could upvote me to help me get there faster :). – Reaverer Mar 15 '16 at 21:28
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Can I also increase my reputation by stating the obvious and criticizing things that were already addressed in the answer? – Reaverer Mar 16 '16 at 03:56

Vim completion with YouCompleteMe on windows

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