Building EDuke32 on Windows

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Getting source files

See Acquiring the EDuke32 Source Code.

Building on Windows with MinGW/GCC/GNU Make

This setup is personally used by Hendricks266.

setup

MinGW-w64

MinGW-GCC is the de facto standard for free compilers on Windows.

  1. First, install MSYS using the automated MinGW installer. Make sure all MSYS components are installed. This should be relatively straightforward and will install the shell and utility commands.
    • This guide assumes that they're installed in c:/MinGW and c:/MinGW/msys -- from the wording on their page, anything else is BAD.
  2. Next, download NASM and extract its contents to MSYS' bin folder, so nasm.exe is located there.
    • Sample path: C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin\nasm.exe
  3. Download any and all MinGW-w64 packages you would like. These contain the entire toolchain. POSIX threads are preferred to Win32 threads, and seh (for 64-bit) and dwarf (for 32-bit) exception handling methods are preferred to sjlj.
  4. You are going to want to extract these in an organized fashion. Use these paths unless you are prepared to make edits to the batch files included with the Setup Helper below.
    • C:\MinGW-w64\mingw32\bin\gcc.exe
    • C:\MinGW-w64\mingw64\bin\gcc.exe
  5. After that, download, extract, and run the MinGW EDuke32 Setup Helper. (You may need to run it as an administrator for it to take full effect.) It will help ensure that everything is installed correctly as well as modify your PATH environment variable for you so you can run the compiler from any directory allowing you to compile EDuke32.
  6. Unfortunately, one deficiency in MinGW-w64 is that the each of the two targets (32-bit and 64-bit) require their own separate executables, instead of using one binary with the -arch parameter as on other platforms. When building EDuke32, the executables generated will match the target of whatever compiler is the highest in PATH--no extra make parameters needed.
    • The Setup Helper sets up the 64-bit compiler by default. If you would like to change the default, run the included i686-MinGW-w64.bat. You can revert with x86_64-MinGW-w64.bat.
      • If you have configured Windows Explorer so that the "Launch folder windows in a separate process" option is enabled, you will need to restart explorer.exe (either by terminating and relaunching it in Task Manager, or restarting your computer) for changes made to persistent PATH to take effect in command prompt windows launched from within Explorer.
    • Otherwise, for a quick test, execute the commands override32 and override64 to change the selected compiler for the current command prompt window only. (These are installed by the Setup Helper.)
  7. One final note: If you are trying to build ebacktrace1.dll and are getting errors about a missing "bfd.h", you need to copy the following files from <root>\include\ to <root>\<target>-w64-mingw32\include\:
ansidecl.h
bfd.h
bfdlink.h
dis-asm.h
symcat.h

clang

Clang is another compiler that complements and works closely in tandem with MinGW. It is mainly used for its highly human readable diagnostic descriptions of compiler errors and warnings.

Installation is simple. Download the binaries marked for "Mingw32/x86", which may be marked "Experimental". From here you have two options. You can extract the contents of the archive in such a way so that its directory structure merges with MinGW's--you will have C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin\clang.exe and so on. The other is to extract the data to its own folder, possibly simplifying the name, and adding it on its own to PATH--C:\clang\bin\clang.exe.

To build with clang, append the setting CLANG=1 to your make invocation.

compiling

Now that we've got everything together, navigate a command prompt window to the base directory containing the EDuke32 source code, type 

make

and cross your fingers: this will attempt to build EDuke32 and Mapster32. If you ran the MinGW EDuke32 Setup Helper earlier in the instructions, it should work.

To compile only either the game or the editor, simply give make the name of the executable, like 

make eduke32.exe

To compile a version suitable for later debugging with GDB, append RELEASE=0 to the command, like this: 

make RELEASE=0

To have more useful function names when doing a backtrace (see debugging below), it is also advisable to disable stack protectors, like this: 

make F_STACK_PROTECTOR_ALL=-fno-stack-protector RELEASE=0

troubleshooting

If something doesn't go as planned, don't despair. Most issues are resolved rather quickly.

  • If you see a barrage of error messages saying that some symbols are not defined, check whether you have all necessary prerequisites like the DirectX SDK installed and that the paths in the Makefile point to the right location.
  • If you get errors at the end of the build process (technically, at link time), there's usually a problem with the libraries -- the linker can't find one or more .a files [needs explanation].
  • Finally, if the executable starts but aborts shortly thereafter, a dynamic link library may be missing. Usually you'll get a helpful message with its name: check the MinGW download page then.

debugging

See Troubleshooting EDuke32.

Building on Windows with Microsoft command line compilers

EDuke32 can be built using freely downloadable Microsoft tools. Unfortunately, Microsoft does not appear to offer a single package containing all the needed tools so it is necessary to get them from several different places.

  1. Download and install the Windows SDK from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=11310 and accept the defaults in the installer.
  2. Download and install the WDK from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11800 and select the "full development environment" option in the installer.
  3. Download and install Visual C++ 2008 Express from http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2008-editions/express
    • Note that the following instructions assume the above programs were installed in the default locations on a 32-bit Windows system. If they are installed in other locations then paths in later instructions will need to be adjusted.
  4. Copy lib.exe from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin to C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1\bin\x86
  5. Copy mt.exe from C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\Bin to C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1\bin\x86
  6. Start the "Windows XP x86 Free Build Environment" from the WDK
  7. Set up paths, etc:
set Include=C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1\inc\api;C:\WINDDK\7600.16385.1\inc\crt

set Lib=C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1\lib;C:\WINDDK\7600.16385.1\lib\wxp\i386;C:\WINDDK\7600.16385.1\lib\wlh\i386;C:\oggvorbis-win32sdk-1.0.1\lib;C:\WINDDK\7600.16385.1\lib\Crt\i386

PATH=C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1\tools\sdv\bin;C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1\bin\x86\oacr;C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1\tools\pfd\bin\bin\x86;C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1\tools\tracing\i386;C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1\bin\x86;C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1\bin\x86\x86;C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1\bin\SelfSign;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem

Finally, change to the directory containing your EDuke32 source tree and run: 

nmake -f Makefile.msvc

Building on Windows with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Preparation

First, follow the procedure above to download the source code. Alternatively:

AnkhSVN

First, you need to download a free SVN plugin for Visual Studio, such as:

Install AnkhSVN, you can find help for installing it from it's website.

  1. Launch Microsoft Visual Studio.
  2. Navigate through the menus: File → Subversion → Open from Subversion...
  3. Type in the URL of the EDuke32 SVN.
  4. Select the eduke32.vcxproj file and click Open.

AnkhSVN now asks you where to save the project locally.

IMPORTANT! The EDuke32 source should be located in a directory with no spaces in its name (for example C:\EDuke32\ or D:\Source\EDuke32).

Choose the local directory, the Type drop-down menu should be set to Latest Version, click on OK to save the project on your hard drive. The program now downloads the latest files from SVN.

When done, EDuke32 is shown as your current solution, now you can continue onto either fiddling with the source or just compiling it.

Compiling

Either click on the green play button, or navigate the menus to Build → Build eduke32 and VS2010 starts compiling the executables.

You will probably see a lot of warnings with wrong datatype conversions but these don't affect the outcome.

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