Devel/Windows build
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MSVC support has been dropped. See MinGW Devel/Windows MinGW build instead
This is work on progress. Do not use this instructions till its finished.
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build tools
- Download MS Visual Studio 2005 Cpp Express Edition (free as free beer)
- Download and install cygwin
- http://www.cygwin.com
- Install the following packages: From Devel: cvs, subversion, make, open-ssh client. Do not install python cygwin package.
- recommended: xorg-x11-bin, gvim, wget
- Download and install python (2.5) and scons (0.96.1) Windows native versions. (I couldn't find a cygwin scons package)
- These are direct download links for the versions I used, but prefere later versions if available.
- http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.msi
- http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/scons/scons-0.96.96.win32.exe
- Update PATH environment var to point to python. Go to properties window of "My Computer" under the "Advanced" tab.
- In my case I had to add this:
;C:\Python25
- from cygwin console use scons.bat from cmd console, just scons
- In my case I had to add this:
Dependent libraris
- download this tarball: http://clam.iua.upf.edu/download/win/other/windows-external-libs.tar.gz
- create a 'dlls' directory where to copy the needed .dlls
- add this path to the PATH environment var, as done for python.
- http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/
- you can use the one provided by clam tarball.
- copy the following dlls into the dll dir (or somewhere else in the PATH)
- pthreadVCE.dll
- xerces_c_2_3_0.dll
- libsndfile.dll
- download and install Microsof DirectX SDK
- http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/xna/aa937788.aspx (400 MB! why?)
- fftw2 and fftw3
- install platform sdk (necessary?)
- portaudio
Install
- open a console
- >"c:\Program files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcvarsall.bat"
TODO
- option sandbox_path necessary?
Others
- xchat for windows
