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Building with mingw

Requirements:

  • libsdl
  • libpng
    • depends on libz
  • glew
  • SDL_mixer
    • the Makefile generated by autoconf didn't work directly for me. See SDL mixer patch for a patch - the SDL libs have to be linked last.

SD built all these from scratch in mingw. This was usually just a case of the usual

configure --prefix=/mingw && make install

cycle. I also used the latest versions of all the above - they're generally pretty old libs by now so whatever latest will be fine.

Art SDK

Art SDKs should be automatically published to http://ec2.orangestems.co.uk/ds3d/ whenever GT pushes a commit.

They're named after the commit hash. If anything goes wrong with the build, SD will have to look and fix it up manually. I don't have notifications or anything.

Requirements:

  • Python 2.7. Get it from http://www.python.org/download/. At the time of writing 2.7.3 is the latest. Go for 32- or 64-bit version depending on your PC.
  • PIL. (python imaging library, for the font, so not strictly needed)
    • I bundle a font image file with the SDK so this is only required if you want to run mkfont.py.
    • Get the binary installer from here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
    • Make sure you get the correct 64/32bit version.
  • Windows powershell. Comes with Win7 at least, maybe Vista too?
  • In powershell: Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
    • probably as administrator
    • SD should look at signing these scripts really.
  • Run mkdata.ps1

Detailed instructions

Here are some slightly more step by step instructions for building in mingw in Windows.

First of all, install msys. There's a binary installer for this. Make sure you install make and gcc utils - I can't remember how optional these are in the installer.

Load up the mingw shell from your start menu - it's a new item installed with msys.

run: mingw-get install libz-dev

Download the libpng source .tar.gz. Extract it and run:

./configure --prefix=/mingw
make install

Download the glew source .tar.gz. Extract it and run:

./configure SYSTEM=mingw32
make install

Clone the punnani-strike repo, run ./configure, run make. Ensure dessert-stroke.exe is built.

First time, you need to do some extra init:

mkdir -p data/fonts
cp *.png data

Copy a carbon.png from the art SDK or a binary distribution of PS to your new data/fonts directory.

./mkdata.sh
./dessert-stroke

That should sort you out.