[Tutorial] Recompiling KeeperFX - MinGW, MSYS and Coreutils

[Stanislas Dolcini]

For All that are as messed up as I am about compilation here is what you need to do.


METHOD 1


First you need to download and install the exe file on this page.Check everything in the installation options.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ming...inst-20120426/

Then download all the files in the next link except the readme file. Extract all of them in the same folder.
Then overwrite the folders in the Mingw folder at the root

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ming...msys-1.0.18-1/

Then download all the files in the next link except the readme file. Extract all of them in the same folder.
Then overwrite the Msys\1.0 in Mingw

http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=2435&id=309746

Finally install Coreutils

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/coreutils.php

Then you need to change environment variables:
Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
Click the Advanced tab.
Click Environment variables.
Double click on path
add ";C:\MinGW\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin"(Without quotes)

after that if you want to compile the keeper fx follow mefisto's guide
https://code.google.com/p/keeperfx/s...structions.txt

In order to the "make package" command to work you need to copy the file 7z.exe from you 7zip installation folder to C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin
A restart may be needed.

METHOD 2

1. Install MinGW with MSYS

You need to download and install the exe file on this page. Check MSYS in the installation options - it's important! You may actually check everything.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ming...inst-20120426/

2. Add MSYS path to system variables

To change environment variables:

• Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
• Click the Advanced tab.
• Click Environment variables.
• Double click on "PATH"
• add ";C:\MinGW\bin;C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin" (without quotes, with semicolon)

3. Update MinGW packages

• Go to C:\MinGW\Msys\1.0
• Run Msys.bat
• In the command line type
  

  mingw-get update
  mingw-get upgrade
  mingw-get install msys-coreutils

3. Follow build guide

after that if you want to compile the keeper fx follow mefisto's guide
https://code.google.com/p/keeperfx/s...structions.txt

In order to the "make package" command to work you need to copy the file 7z.exe from you 7zip installation folder to C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin
A restart may be needed.

[mefistotelis]

Nice guide! Still, could be improved a bit:

During MinGW installation, you may select to install MSYS, so you won't need to install second package.
(note: it's better to use "sh.exe" from MSYS instead of "cmd.exe" as a console shell for invoking the commands below; just Start->Run sh)

All packages in MinGW may be upgraded with "mingw-get", like this:

mingw-get update
mingw-get upgrade

Invoking these two commands will always bring your version of MinGW to the latest. You don't have to download upgrades and install manually.

Installing additional packages is also that simple:

mingw-get install msys-coreutils

[Stanislas Dolcini]

May be wrong but If I remember correctly on the website they say that this command (mingw-get) only allows you to get the 3.** versions because they are no more updated.
Quote from http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started
"MinGW-5.1.6.exe to install any version of GCC later than 3.4.5."

Will had that part in the tutorial =) I didn't put it because I'm not really familiar with those commands.

EDIT : To make a nightly build in one row just type "make standard;make heavylog;make package"

[mefistotelis]

May be wrong but If I remember correctly on the website they say that this command (mingw-get) only allows you to get the 3.** versions because they are no more updated.

You are right, they weren't updated for some time.

Anyway, now the upgrade command seem to download exactly what we want.
This is part of the messages shown by "mingw-get upgrade":

upgrade: libgcc-4.7.2-1-mingw32-dll-1.tar.lzma
mingw-get.exe: *** INFO *** package libgcc-4.7.2-1-mingw32-dll-1.tar.lzma is up to date
upgrade: gcc-4.7.2-1-mingw32-lic.tar.lzma
mingw-get.exe: *** INFO *** package gcc-4.7.2-1-mingw32-lic.tar.lzma is up to date

[Stanislas Dolcini]

So for a guy who now nothing. He installs http://sourceforge.net/projects/ming...inst-20120426/ then he goes to the msys folder after setting the environnement variables and launch msys.bat

After that all he has to do is type mingw-get upgrade; mingw-get install msys-coreutils and he gets everything ?

[mefistotelis]

After that all he has to do is type mingw-get upgrade; mingw-get install msys-coreutils and he gets everything ?

Yes; but before "mingw-get upgrade", he needs "mingw-get update" - this downloads the information about latest available packages.

[Stanislas Dolcini]

Updated first post.

[Stanislas Dolcini]

Maybe you could stick it =)

[Ernisius]

I have successfully built KeeperFX using the instructions here.

I would like to go a bit further and play around with the code.

Can anyone recommend the best way to approach this, notepad is a bit cumbersome,
I have installed codeblocks ide but would need to create a project file?

Thanks

[mefistotelis]

Can anyone recommend the best way to approach this, notepad is a bit cumbersome,
I have installed codeblocks ide but would need to create a project file?

You can create a project in any IDE.

I'm using Eclipse CDT for KeeperFX development.
The files ".project" and ".cproject" included in KeeperFX repository are eclipse project files.