Silent vimrun.exe replacement

In the default Vim package for Win32, executing any external command flashes a command-line window. This is completely unnecessary. I think it's plain wrong. So I wrote a replacement executable that does exactly the same, without the flashing window.

Installation

Grab vimrun.exe from the downloads.
Put it anywhere in your PATH before Vim's directory. The easiest way, though, is to replace the vanilla vimrun.exe, located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim73 or somewhere similar.

Description

The problem with vimrun.exe is that it's a console executable, and in Windows, console executables always run inside a command-line interpreter window -- the black one. Even if you start a GUI application from vim, the vimrun.exe wrapper still requires a command-line shell.

My wrapper is a "GUI" application, which in Win32 means that it doesn't open in a command-line shell. Yep, that's it.

It then spawns the requested application and waits until it finishes, then returns the exit code.

If the application is a console one, it will be visible only if the silent mode isn't requested (with the -s switch). This isn't as good a solution as in Unix Vim, but it works.

Building by yourself

I use CMake to generate makefiles.

git clone git://github.com/leonid-shevtsov/vimrun-silent.git
cd vimrun-silent
cmake CmakeLists.txt -G"NMake Makefiles"
nmake

You could also build a Visual Studio solution if it pleases you.

Source based on the vanilla vimrun.c, available from Vim sources.