Getting Omni complete to work on vim 7.2 on windows

Question

Hi,
I am trying to use the Omni complete feature with gVim 7.2 but on windows I keep getting an error that says

Error: require vim compiled with +python
E117: unknown function: pythoncomplete#complete

seems like it might be because gvim 7.2 is compiled with 2.4 and I have 2.5 installed. I have downloaded the 2.5 compiled binaries from here , but still no joy.

The python I have on my machine was installed as part of Cygwin (I have python.exe and python2.5.exe in c:\cygwin\bin) . I tried copying these two files to a directory C:\python25 in case that was the path that was specified during recompilation.

Is there anyway to get omni complete to work without having to recompile gvim myself?

Answer 1

The Cygwin Python won't work. Just install the Windows Python from http://python.org.

I had the same problem, but with a plugin - pyflakes. I solved it by installing Python 2.6 FOR ALL USERS, and using a gvim.exe binary downloaded from here:

http://www.gooli.org/blog/gvim-72-with-python-2526-support-windows-binaries/