Articles tagged 'windows'
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git submodule and the libiconv-2.dll issue
September 27, 2011
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on September 27, 2011.
Yesterday, I made a fresh install of the latest msysGit (which is 1.7.6 as of right now).
I usually set up my vim using the akitaonrails vimfiles. So last night I was trying to do as I usually do, clone the repository with
git clone git://github.com/akitaonrails/vimfiles
, and then cd into the just cloned repository and rungit submodule update --init
to get all the bundled plugins.This last command failed miserably with a
The program can't start because libiconv-2.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem
message. This didn’t happen to me with version 1.7.4 from msysGit, which I had installed before I formatted…