compiling vim on msys2 with python support

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Just wasted 5 hours so might as well ask here.

I am able to compile vim without problem (64bit system) :

 ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-tlib=ncursesw --enable-luainterp \
--with-lua-prefix=/usr/local --disable-gui --disable-tclinterp \
--enable-cscope --without-x CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -I/usr/include/ncursesw" \
--enable-python3interp=dynamic --enable-pythoninterp=dynamic \
--enable-multibyte && make

The flags python/dyn and python3/dyn are both active

However, as soon as I try to execute python command from within the vim:

E370: Could not load library
E263: Sorry, this command is disabled, the Python library could not be loaded.

To make things even more confusing, the native vim bundled with msys2 has working python support. After switching directories I discovered it uses

/bin/msys-python2.7.dll
/bin/msys-python3.3m.dll.

I tried to copy those files to different directories and change names to python27.dll or python2.7.dll. To no avail.

When running configure add `--enable-fail-if-missing` to make sure the configure script actually finds the python interpreters. — FDinoff, May 05 '15 at 03:27
It does find them - I checked logs. The flag doesn't cause it to fail, unfortunately. — Mikel, May 05 '15 at 03:29

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 05 '15 at 10:17

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The vim executable was lingering in /usr/local/bin/ and corrupting the path.

answered May 05 '15 at 10:17

Mikel

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