#summary Instructions for building Hedgewars on Windows #labels Phase-Implementation,Phase-Design,Phase-Support = Things to download = First of all, please use this guide over here ( http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/find-out-32-or-64-bit) to see whether your OS is 32 or 64 bit. You will need it while doing the setup. # CMake - download the *Windows (Win32 Installer)* * Link: http://cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html # FreePascal - download the *Download as installer* * Link: http://www.freepascal.org/down/i386/win32-ftp.freepascal.org.var # Qt SDK * Link: http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/sdk-windows-cpp # Mercurial - pick one (TortoiseHg has a GUI and is more user-friendly) # TortoiseHg - Chose one based on your OS version * Link: http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/download/index.html # Command-line mercurial * Link (OS 32 bits): http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/windows/Mercurial-2.0.2.exe * Link (OS 64 bits): http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/windows/Mercurial-2.0.2-x64.exe # _Windows building archive_ - it contains everything you need to compile Hedgewars on Windows. * Link: http://hedgewars.org/download/hedgewars-win32-buildscripts.zip = 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: * Click the *DESELECT ALL* button. We will then check only what we need * Check *Qt SDK/Miscellaneous/MinGW * * Check *Qt SDK/Development Tools/Desktop Qt/Qt /Desktop Qt - Mingw* (it's the first checkbox) * !!If there will be any error message boxes, just press ignore until it won't show anymore :) # Install TortoiseHg / mercurial # Restart the computer # Download the Hedgewars source: # 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 # Using Command-line mercurial * 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: {{{ cmd.exe }}} * 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... ): {{{ hg clone https://hedgewars.googlecode.com/hg/ trunk }}} # Extract the _Windows Building Archive_ to the hedgewars source folder, in the root source directory - where there are the bin, misc, tools, etc. directories. # Go to the "tools/build_windows.bat" file, and modify the following: * SET PASCAL= (for example: c:\FPC\2.4.4\bin\i386-win32\) * SET SET QTDIR=> (for example: c:\QtSDK\Desktop\Qt\4.7.3\) # You can now build hedgewars, by running the *tools/build_windows.bat* command. # After building it, you can run it from the Desktop - using the *Hedgewars* shortcut. = Building process = Run the *tools/build_windows.bat* file each time you want to build the source.