#summary Instructions for building Hedgewars on Windows

#labels Phase-Implementation,Phase-Design,Phase-Support

= Setup =

 # Install CMake, but please *ensure* you select "Add CMake to the system PATH for all users", so you can run CMake directly from command line.

 # Install FreePascal.

 # Install Qt SDK, with the "Custom" option:

  * Check "Qt SDK/Development Tools/Desktop Qt/Qt <your version>/Desktop Qt <your version> - Mingw (it's the first checkbox)

  * Uncheck "Qt SDK/Development Tools/Symbian Toolchains"

  * Uncheck "Qt SDK/Development Tools/Harmattan"

 # Install TortoiseHg / mercurial

 # Restart the computer

  # Using TortoiseHg

   * Right-click in any folder on your computer

   * Select Tortoise HG -> Clone.

   * In the _Source_ textbox enter: https://hedgewars.googlecode.com/hg/

   * Press clone

   * If you have Windows 7 skip the next 3 steps, and instead, SHIFT + Right click in the folder where you want to download the source.

   * Start _Run..._ ( WINDOWS Key + R , or Start -> Run... )

   * Enter:

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cmd.exe

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   * Navigate to where you want to download the source

   * Type and execute ( The initial clone of the repository will take a while, is about 550MiB or so... ):

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hg clone https://hedgewars.googlecode.com/hg/ trunk

}}}

 # Go to the "bin/build_windows.bat" file, and modify the following:

  * SET PASCAL=<put the path to the directory that contains fpc's executable (fpc.exe)> (for example: c:\FPC\2.4.4\bin\i386-win32\)

  * SET SET QTDIR=<path to the QtSDK\Desktop\Qt\<your version>> (for example: c:\QtSDK\Desktop\Qt\4.7.3\)

 # You can now build hedgewars, by running the *bin/build_windows.bat* command.

= Building process =

Run the *bin/build_windows.bat* file each time you want to build the source.