HowTo compile on Win32 with MinGW

2004-08-07T15:50:03Z

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<center><h2>by '''Madcat'''</h2></center>

== List of things you need to compile [[aMule]] ==

'''Note:''' Some of these require manually moving includes/libs into the right directories.

[http://www.microsoft.com/windows Windows] port of [http://gcc.gnu.org GNU C compiler] -> [http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe?download Download]

Minimal [http://www.gnu.org GNU] shell for [http://www.microsoft.com/windows Windows] -> [http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.10.exe?download Download]

Developer toolkit for [http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml MSys] (for [http://www.gnu.org/software/cvs CVS] & co) -> [http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe?download Download]

[http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv LibIConv] (required by [http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext gettext]) ->
[http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/libiconv-1.8.0-2003.02.01-1.exe?download Download]

[http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext GetText] (for [http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext po files], [http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/automake.html autogen.sh], etc) ->
[http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gettext-0.11.5-2003.02.01-1.exe?download Download]

[http://curl.haxx.se Curl] library (compile w/o [http://wp.netscape.com/eng/ssl3 SSL] support) ->
[http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.11.1.tar.gz Download]

[http://www.zlib.org zlib] compression library ->
[http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/cygwin/release/mingw/mingw-zlib/mingw-zlib-1.2.1-1.tar.bz2 Download]

[[libcrypto|Crypto++]] encryption library ->
[http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai/crypto51.zip Download]

[http://www.microsoft.com/windows Windows] port of [[wxWidgets]] library ->
[http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxwindows/wxMSW-2.4.2.zip Download]

== Common guidelines, issues, solutions ==

Generally, compile [[wxWidgets|wxMSW]] as static library. This avoids several linker issues, and provides you with static binary.

Link statically against ''[http://www.zlib.org zlib]'', ''[[libcrypto|crypto]]'', ''[http://curl.haxx.se curl]'' and ''[[wxWidgets|wxMSW]]'' to avoid distributing extranous DLLs (and generally make life simpler). At this point, this requires manually hacking ''src/Makefile'' (after running ''configure'') and changing the necessary ''-l***'' places to paths to static libraries.

You need to modify ''wx/setup.h'' file by hand (after installing [[wxWidgets|wx]]) and change ''[http://www.wxwindows.org/manuals/2.4.2/wx53.htm wxCheckListBox]'' to ''0'' (or, alternativly, configure [[wxWidgets|wx]] with ''--without-checklistbox''). Probably there's a better way around this, but I can't think of any right now.

Why don't distribute a compiled version?

Oh! Please compile it - it will be so much easier....

== Compiling with [http://www.parinya.ca/mingwstudio.html MinGW Studio] ==

Since the 2004/07/17, you can find in [http://www.gnu.org/software/cvs CVS] the file ''amule.msp'' which is the project file relative to the [http://www.parinya.ca/mingwstudio.html MinGW Studio] IDE ([http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Free] and under [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GPL] at http://www.parinya.ca/ and shipped with precompiled [[wxWidgets|wxMSW]]).

Install [http://www.parinya.ca/mingwstudio.html MinGW Studio], add [http://www.zlib.org Zlib], [http://curl.haxx.se Curl] and [[libcrypto|Crypto++]] compilled libs in The [http://www.parinya.ca/mingwstudio.html MinGW Studio] tree.

Then, open ''amule.msp'' with [http://www.parinya.ca/mingwstudio.html MinGW Studio], press '''F7''', and [[aMule]] "should" be compiled :)

Yes, I know, "compile" is not the same as "work" ... But it is a great begining

== Compiling with [http://www.gnu.org/software/make Makefile][http://www.microsoft.com/windows WIN32] ==

With [http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml MinSyS] and [http://www.mingw.org MinGW], you can use the shipped [http://www.gnu.org/software/make Makefile][http://www.microsoft.com/windows WIN32].

Just rename ''configWIN32.h'' to ''config.h'', edit [http://www.gnu.org/software/make Makefile][http://www.microsoft.com/windows WIN32] to give it the path of your compiler, and type ''make -f MakefileWIN32''

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HowTo compile on Win32 with MinGW