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Windows AppVeyor Builds

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Windows AppVeyor CI Builds

On Windows, you can download builds for any commit made within the past 6 Months.

Download Latest Master Build

Instructions for installing the latest available master build.

  1. Go to the latest commit.

  2. Click on the link left of the commit title. Either ✔️ or ❌.

  3. Click on the "Details" link for AppVeyor. The AppVeyor icon is Blue/Teal.
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  4. From the AppVeyor page, select either toolchain (MSVC or GCC should both work).
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  5. Scroll down on the next page, and click on the Artifacts tab.

  6. Click on the generated zip file, neovim-qt.zip and the file will start downloading.
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NOTES:
Builds marked ❌ are not necessarily bad.
Builds with a ✔️ next to AppVeyor should work.

Generally, the latest master commit is in a good state. If you experience problems, please open an Issue.

Selecting an Arbitrary Commit

You can also download commits other than the latest one.

  1. Go to the neovim-qt homepage
  2. Click the N commits button.
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  3. Click the ✔️ or ❌ for any commit.
  4. Follow steps 3 - 6 above.

Extracting and Installing

Instructions for installation of the neovim-qt.zip folder.

If your %PATH% includes a copy of nvim.exe you can simply extract the folder to any location and run nvim-qt.exe.

Here is installation an example:

  1. Download the latest version of Neovim: Nighly Release or Stable Release.
  2. Extract nvim-win64.zip.
  3. Extract neovim-qt.zip.
  4. From neovim-qt, copy the contents of bin and share to nvim-win64. Conflicts will occur, overwrite.
  5. Run nvim-qt.exe from the nvim-win64 folder.
  6. Optional: Add the nvim-win64\bin folder to your %PATH% variable.