Compiling on Windows?

[edge2054]

Any advice for compiling on windows xp? I followed the instructions on the wiki and keep hitting errrors when it comes to the compile.

I've checked and rechecked that I did everything right but still no luck. Changing the file directory in lua premake4 and rerunning gmake got me a bit further but it still hit a wall at the end (not sure what error that one was).

But the error I'm getting following the wiki is src/physfs/physfsrwops.h.30.17: fatal error : SDL.h: no such file or directory.

[madmonk]

Have you got SDL installed?

[edge2054]

I downloaded all four SDL libraries but they don't install. Do I need to install something to make use of them?

[edge2054]

I may have downloaded the wrong SDL. I'll see how it goes once I get this tar file extracted.

[edge2054]

Alright, I got it to create an exe in the bin but I have no idea what to do with it.

Looks like it didn't create the dll files as far as I can see.

Maybe it's compiling in debug mode or something? All the files have the name debug next to them.

[edge2054]

Ahhahha...

Maybe when compiling from the SVN I need to clear out the debug option in premake 4 so it compiles in release.

I did have the wrong SDL downloaded though.

Now I have a bunch of release files but still no dll files... I feel like I'm missing something.

[edge2054]

Copy and paste FTW. Apparently the dll files have to be manually imported.

[Susramanian]

I'm stuck on this step:

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Open MSYS from the shortcut installed by MinGW. Do 'cd /c/tengine'

What is MSYS? I can't find it. There's a bunch of files in the MinGW folder with msys in the names.

I thought at first that this was just the windows comand prompt, but trying to use it just results in windows telling me that it doesn't understand the word 'make'

[Susramanian]

I think I found it, but now I'm getting this error when compiling:

src/tSDL.h:8:21: fatal error: SDL_ttf.h: No such file or directory

I do have a SDL_ttf file in t-engine4/libs/SDL_ttf-2.0.10/lib. I don't know if that's the same thing

[Susramanian]

Got it figured out. Missed some rather important slashes in premake4.lua.

Thanks for all the help in IRC, Edge and Psyringe.