1 #summary Instructions for building Hedgewars on Windows

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

     3 

     4 = Prerequisites =

     5 

     6  # CMake - http://cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html

     7  # FreePascal - http://www.freepascal.org/down/i386/win32- ftp.freepascal.org.var

     8  # Qt SDK - http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/sdk-windows-cpp-offline

     9  # TortoiseHg ( or command-line mercurial )

    10  # Source code of Hedgewars

    11  # Windows building archive - it contains everything you need to compile Hedgewars on Windows.

    12 

    13 = Setup =

    14  # 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.

    15  # Install FreePascal.

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

    17   * Check "Qt SDK/Miscellaneous/MinGW <any version>"!

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

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

    20   * Uncheck "Qt SDK/Development Tools/Harmattan"

    21  # Install TortoiseHg / mercurial

    22  # Restart the computer

    23  # Download the Hedgewars source, using mercurial:

    24   # Using TortoiseHg

    25    * Right-click in any folder on your computer

    26    * Select Tortoise HG -> Clone.

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

    28    * Press clone

    29   # Command-line mercurial

    30    * 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.

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

    32    * Enter:

    33 {{{

    34 cmd.exe

    35 }}} 

    36    * Navigate to where you want to download the source

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

    38 {{{

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

    40 }}}

    41  # Extract the Windows Building Archive to the hedgewars source folder, in the *bin* directory

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

    43   * 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\)

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

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

    46 

    47 = Building process =

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