Sven Guckes@vim.org ©1995-2001

Last update: Fri Dec 07 21:47:15 MET 2001

VIM Binaries and Packages - Sites with precompiled versions

The main goal of this page is to list links to pages which offer binaries for each operating system.

Hopefully, I'll manage to give you a link for every OS that Vim runs on. And if there is more than one site then I'll list only those which offer current versions.

A note to all Linux package maintainers - please send me an email so I can communicate with you! And please upgrade your packages to vim-5.8 [010525]. Thankyou!

Binaries maintainer wanted!

We are looking for binary maintainers, ie people who would maintain a website for the distribution of vim binaries of their favourite system. Anyone?

Here's an example for a well maintained binary site:

  • http://www.polarfox.com/vim/ (Well done, Zoltan! :-)

    I have received several enthusiatic offers for the maintenance of the binaries for Windows - but I have to turn them all down because the Windows binaries are available on *every* ftp mirror out there - so there is no need for this. Thank you for the offers, anyway. :-)

    So here's a list of systems where we could not provide binaries for. Can you help these people and give them a binary? Perhaps maintain the binary with a website? Please get in touch!

    Vim on PDAs and Embedded Systems: I get requests for Vim binaries on small systems at least once a week. But so far there are no sites with such binaries. Any takers?

    System			Date	Name+Address
    ======			====	==============
    DYNIX/ptx		990816	Tim Burlowski tim.burlowski@veritas.com
    FlexOS			990308	Gary R. Johnson grj@ync.net
    PalmOS			000424	K. Danielson kdaniels@bitstream.net
    			001223	Fred Davis fdavis2@purdue.edu
    			010222	TomH@Exabyte.COM
    Psion/Epoc32		000821	Andre Berger andre.berger@topmail.de
    QNX			001011	Ingo Gross ingo.gross@zess.uni-siegen.de
    Sinix			990309	Bernhard Kraft bernhard.kraft@gmx.de might offer them
    Solaris x86		990816	Tim Burlowski tim.burlowski@veritas.com [990816]
    			990906	Sumit Garg sumit.garg@usa.net
    			001013	will try: Jimmy nas@nbnet.nb.ca
    Super-UX		.
    Ultrix			990816	Tim Burlowski tim.burlowski@veritas.com
    Unisys			.
    UnixWare		.
    WindowsCE		000418 Balazs Juhasz juhasz@frankendata.de
    
    Can you help them? In case you could make a vim binary available together with a webpage to provide some info on the binary, please send me an email! Thanks! :-)


    Vim Binaries Sites

    Here are the sites that offer vim binaries:

    System yymmdd LINK
    A/UX yymmdd none yet - any takers?
    AIX ------ http://www.usaserve.net/users/shaney/vim/
    AIX 010316 http://sites.netscape.net/sharpPeople/vim/bin/
    Alpha Win32 ...... http://george.reilly.org/vim/
    Amiga 010618 none yet - any takers?
    BeOS 010129 ftp://ftp.ubix.org/pub/vim/ http://www.bebits.com/app/546
    BSDi yymmdd http://www.rassilon.net/~vitamink/vim/
    Convex yymmdd none yet - any takers?
    CygWin 991202 http://www.zip.com.au/~raf2/vim/
    EPOC (Psion V) 001013 http://www.starship.freeserve.co.uk/vim.html
    FreeBSD yymmdd ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/{alpha,i386}/packages-{version}/editors/vim-5.3.tgz
    HPUX 000812 http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Editors/vim-5.7/
    IRIX yymmdd http://pigseye.kennesaw.edu/~dharriso/vim/ (tardist)
    IRIX yymmdd http://www.igd.fhg.de/~zach/vim/ (tar)
    LINUX . .
    - 2.0.xx . http://home.mayn.de/jean-luc/vim/
    - Debian (DEB) 000127 http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/editors/vim.html
    - MkLinux yymmdd none yet - any takers?
    - RedHat (RPM) yymmdd http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/VByName.html
    - RedHat (RPM) 991129 http://www.carumba.com/rpms/
    - RedHat (RPM) yymmdd ftp://ftp.blarg.net/pub/vim/
    - Sparc yymmdd http://home.mayn.de/jean-luc/vim/
    - SuSE yymmdd http://www.suse.de/en/produkte/susesoft/linux/Pakete/paket_vim.html
    - SuSE yymmdd http://www.suse.de/de/produkte/susesoft/linux/Pakete/paket_gvim.html
    MacOS yymmdd http://www.tu-bs.de/~i0080108/macvim.html
    MacOS (mirror) 000808 http://www.kassube.de/mirrors/macvim/
    MacOS (alternative) 000927 http://www3.sympatico.ca/dany.stamant/vim/
    NetBSD 000926 ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/editors/vim/README.html
    NEXTSTEP 000704 http://wwwtg.mp.tudelft.nl/~goudswrd/vim/main.html
    OpenVMS yymmdd see VMS
    OSF yymmdd http://home.mayn.de/jean-luc/vim/
    OpenBSD 011207 http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/editors/vim/
    OS/2 yymmdd http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/editors/vim-5_7.zip
    yymmdd none yet - any takers?
    RiscOS 000927 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tal197/vim.php3
    SGI 010705 http://freeware.sgi.com/Installable/vim-5.7.html
    Solaris 001002 http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc8.html#vim
    Solaris yymmdd http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~boehme/vim/
    SunOS yymmdd http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~boehme/vim/
    SunOS yymmdd http://home.mayn.de/jean-luc/vim/ (m)
    SunOS yymmdd http://www.retina.net/~tilde/vim/
    Tru64 010920 http://www.geocities.com/jstarship_2001/vim-tru64.html
    VMS 000626 http://www.polarfox.com/vim/
    WindowsCE yymmdd http://www.xt-ce.com/
    Windows 16bit ------ available on all FTP mirrors - subdirectory "pc"
    available on all FTP mirrors - subdirectory "pc" ------ all mirrors - subdirectory "pc"

    DGUX := Data General Unix (DG/UX)
    OSF  := Digital Unix (OSF/1)
    
    
    (m) NOTE:    This site will move soon!
    

    VIM Binaries and Packages - Full List

    AIX
    000301	AIX-4.3.2	vim-5.6	"Minimal"
    000301	AIX-4.3.2	vim-5.6	"Console"
    000301	AIX-4.3.2	vim-5.6	"Motif"
    http://sites.netscape.net/sharpPeople/vim/bin/
    Contact: Dan Sharp vimuser@crosswinds.net
    Last checked: 010318
    
    981119	AIX-4.1.4	vim-5.3
    981119	AIX-4.2.1	vim-5.3
    981119	AIX-4.3.1	vim-5.3
    http://www.usaserve.net/users/shaney/vim/
    Contact: Steve Haney Steve_Haney-p21393@email.mot.com
    
    Alpha Win32
    990824  Alpha Win32	vim-5.4
    Contact: George Reilly George@Reilly.org
    
    Amiga
    98????	68000		vim-5.0x	GUI prototype
    98????	68020		on request!
    98????	68040/68060	vim-5.0x	GUI prototype
    http://vip.cybercity.dk/~ccc30647/vim/ [obsolete!]
    Contact: Michael Nielsen mni@dde.dk [980522]
    990208:	 Michael promised to update the binaries to vim-5.3 soon.
    990707:  The site moved - but Michael has no more time to maintain
    the binaries. Any takers? 
    
    BeOS
    http://www.bebits.com/app/546
    http://www.bebits.com/bob/4746/vim-5.7-BeOS-x86.pkg.zip
    Contact: Denis Bourez denis(at)ubix.org
    Last checked:  010129
    
    ftp://ftp.ubix.org/pub/vim/57/
    000717:	vim-5.7-BeOS-x86.pkg.zip	1649Kb
    ftp://ftp.ubix.org/pub/vim/60g/
    000830:	vim-6.0g-ALPHA-BeOS-x86.pkg	1936Kb
    BeOS 4.5/5.0
    Contact:  ???
    Last checked:  010129
    
    BSDi
    http://www.rassilon.net/~vitamink/vim/
    http://www.retina.net/~tilde/vim/
    990504  BSDi 4.0	vim-5.3
    990813  BSDi 4.0	vim-5.4
    Contact: Klaus Steden vitamink@vesuvius.rassilon.net tilde@retina.net
    
    CygWin
    991202	CygWin		vim-5.5.41	requires coolview, X11
    000316	CygWin		vim-5.6.12	+gui (compiled as windows application)
    http://www.zip.com.au/~raf2/vim/
    Contact: "raf" raf@comdyn.com.au
    
    EPOC (Psion V)
    001013	EPOC	Vim-5.5
    http://www.starship.freeserve.co.uk/vim.html
    Contact:  
    Keith Walker keith@starship.freeserve.co.uk
    Dave  Walker     dave@itimpi.freeserve.co.uk
    
    FreeBSD
    990723	FreeBSD 2.2.8	vim-5.3
    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-2.2.8/editors/vim-5.3.tgz
    
    990723	FreeBSD 3.2	vim-5.3
    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-3.2-stable/editors/vim-5.3.tgz
    
    990723	FreeBSD 4	vim-5.3
    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-current/editors/vim-5.3.tgz
    Contact: Nick Hibma n_hibma@freebsd.org
    
    HPUX
    010625  HPUX-10.20      vim-5.8.004     +GUI_GTK glib
    010625  HPUX-11.00      vim-5.8.004     +GUI_GTK glib
    http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Editors/vim-5.8.004/
    Contact: ???
    Note:	There are several mirrors of this archive around the world!
    Last check: 011122
    
    IRIX
    000330	IRIX-5.3	vim-5.5.73
    000330	IRIX-6.x	vim-5.5.73
    http://pigseye.kennesaw.edu/~dharriso/vim/
    Contact: David C. Harrison Jr." dharriso@pigseye.kennesaw.edu
    NOTE:    Two versions available - one for "software manager"
    and one version for users (which can be installed in your home directory).
    
    000405	IRIX-6.2	vim-5.6		+cscope +GUI_Motif +python +XIM
    http://www.igd.fhg.de/~zach/vim/
    Contact: Gabriel Zachmann zach@igd.fhg.de
    
    LINUX LINUX - Debian
    990923	DEB	vim-5.3-13
    000821	DEB	vim-5.6.070-1
    http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/editors/vim.html [000605]
    Contact: Wichert Akkerman  wakkerma@debian.org
    
    LINUX - RedHat (RPM)
    RedHat.com's Download Page:
    http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/
    search for vim on all architectures
    ftp://ftp.bero.org/pub/vim/ [010926]
    010926  RPM     vim-6.0
    
    Or use RPMfind.net to find LOTS of RPMs for Vim: [000605]
    http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=vim
    
    LINUX - Sparc
    981005	Sparclinux-2.0.xx:
    http://home.mayn.de/jean-luc/vim/
    Contact: Thomas Köhler jean-luc@picard.franken.de
    NOTE:    This site will move soon!
    
    LINUX - SuSE
    000911	Linux-SuSE-7.0 Personal		vim-5.6-99
    http://www.suse.de/de/produkte/susesoft/linux/Pakete_pers/paket_vim.html
    
    000911	Linux-SuSE-7.0 Professional	vim-5.6-99
    http://www.suse.de/de/produkte/susesoft/linux/Pakete_prof/paket_vim.html
    
    MacOS
    990904	MacOS		vim-5.4.49
    990904	MacOS		vim-5.5a
    http://www.tu-bs.de/~i0080108/macvim.html
    Contact: Axel Kielhorn a.kielhorn@tu-bs.de
    http://www.kassube.de/mirrors/macvim/ (mirror) [000808]
    Contact: Nils Kassube nika@kassube.de
    
    9902..	MacOS 68040	vim-5.3		(version info)
    9902..	MacOS PPC	vim-5.3		(version info)
    http://www3.sympatico.ca/dany.stamant/vim/ 
    Contact: Dany St-Amant
    
    NeXT
    000704	NeXTSTEP-3.3	vim-5.7		Athena X11
    http://wwwtg.mp.tudelft.nl/~goudswrd/vim/main.html
    Contact: Jeroen Goudswaard J.C.M.Goudswaard@CTG.TUDelft.nl
    
    011207  OpenBSD         vim-???
    http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/editors/vim/
    Reported by: Teppo Lainio teppo.lainio@lailanet.fi
    
    OS/2
    000913	OS/2 Warp	vim-5.7
    http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/editors/vim-5_7.zip
     ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/editors/vim-5_7.zip
    http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?dir=/pub/os2/apps/editors
    Reported by:    Petr Hanousek webmaster@integralsro.cz
    
    OSF
    981005	OSF/1-3.0	 vim-5.3	...
    http://home.mayn.de/jean-luc/vim/
    Contact: Thomas Köhler jean-luc@picard.franken.de
    NOTE:    This site will move soon!
    
    QNX RiscOS
    000927	RiscOS	vim-5.4a	"zipped - 1,281,740 bytes"
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tal197/vim.php3
    Contact: Thomas Leonard tal197@ecs.soton.ac.uk
    Would be nice to see an update to vim-5.7 ...
    
    SCO
    OpenServer
    980728	"OpenServer"	vim-5.1
    http://www.sco.com/skunkware/osr5/editors/vim/
    990308	"UnixWare"	vim-5.3
    http://www.sco.com/skunkware/uw7/editors/vim/
    Contact: ???
    
    SGI
    010705  SGI     vim-5.7         4.9Mb   no compile features known - anyone?
    http://freeware.sgi.com/Installable/vim-5.7.html
    Contact: freeware@sgi.com
    http://freeware.sgi.com/Dist/fw_vim-5.7.tardist
    But does anyone know who did this port and what the features are?
    Would be nice if this was updated to vim-5.8 [010525].
    
    SunOS
    990729	SunOS-4.1.x		vim-5.4
    http://home.mayn.de/jean-luc/vim/bin/ [info]
    Contact: Thomas Köhler jean-luc@picard.franken.de
    NOTE:    This site will move soon!
    
    
    
    Solaris
    000321	vim-5.6 -perl -python -gui
    000321	vim-5.6 -perl -python +GUI_GTK
    000321	vim-5.6 -perl -python +GUI_Motif
    000321	vim-5.6 -perl -python +GUI Xaw3d
    
    011009	vim-6.0 -perl -python +GUI_Motif
    http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~boehme/vim/
    Contact: Harald Boehme boehme@informatik.hu-berlin.de
    Last check: 011009
    
    000204: vim-5.4
    001002: vim-5.7
            1549663 Oct  2 18:34 vim-5.7-sol8-sparc-local.gz
    http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc8.html#vim
    Last check: 010106
    
    990729	SunOS-5.6 x86		vim-5.3
    000508	SunOS 5.6 x86		vim-5.6
    http://www.retina.net/~tilde/vim/
    Contact: Klaus Steden tilde@retina.net
    
    Tru64
    010920  Tru64                   vim-5.8
    http://www.geocities.com/jstarship_2001/vim-tru64.html
    Contact: Jeff Heard Jeff.Heard@acxiom.com
    
    VMS
    000211:	VMS			vim-5.6
    000412:	VMS			vim-5.6.60
    000626:	VMS			vim-5.7
    http://www.polarfox.com/vim/
    Contact: Zoltan Arpadffy arpadffy@altavista.net
    Note: Binaries are available for Alpha or VAX, with
    or without GUI, and with or without documentation.
    An incredibly up-to-date site with lots of archives.  :-)
    
    WindowsCE
    You can use the DOS 16bit version with it,
    but this requires a registered version of the 8086 emulator "XTCE".
    You can ask this guy about it:   Steven La sla@poboxes.com
    For more info on the XTCE emulator see
    http://www.xt-ce.com/ [010618]
    http://www.pyram-id.demon.co.uk/XTCE.html [obsolete]
    
    Windows 16bit [Windows-3.1x]
    "And the 16bit version is discouraged for everything, including DOS mode."
    Still - any takers?
    
    Windows 32bit [Win95 and WinNT]
    The Vim binaries for Windows systems are available
    from *all* ftp mirrors in the subdirectory "pc".
    

    A note on binary size

    Mike Williams mikew@harlequin.co.uk on vim-dev on 990727: Out of interest, release builds of 5.4 win32 gvim with VC5 sp2 - Optimize for ... Processor Speed Size PPro 686,080 bytes 591,360 bytes Pentium 687,104 bytes 590,848 bytes So a 95KB (~14%) saving possible when optimized for size - not to be sniffed at by some. Must be all that loop unrolling.

    TODO

    Add links to packages by Linux distributors (RedHat, Debian, SuSE etc). Example:

    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/xap2/gvim.rpm
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/a1/vim.rpm
    


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