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Links
to various Windows build instructions:
Release Guide -> Windows (2014 or older)
CaveSomething's CMake instructions (2010 or older)
Server compiling with Visual Studio 6 (contains passing references to gtk client builds)
MinGW and CMake instructions from ~2018 (External on xob.kapsi.fi/~makegho)
My Notes
loosely based on the makegho 2018 instructions:
These instructions assume a fresh, clean 32-bit windows 10 machine.
Install compiler tools:
Go to http://www.msys2.org/
Download and run latest i686 installer (msys2-i686-20190524.exe)
Start an msys2 32-bit shell (“MSYS2 MinGW 32-bit” in the start menu) and type:
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-gcc pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-make pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-pkg-config pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-vala pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-SDL_image pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-SDL_mixer
Alternatively, do a oneliner:
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-gcc pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-make pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-pkg-config pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-vala pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-SDL_image pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-SDL_mixer
Add c:\msys32\mingw32\bin to path
Install PERL:
http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html
Download portable 32 bit edition
Extract to C:\perl
Add C:\perl\perl\bin to path.
Note that this can cause some issues, especially if CMake tries to use perl-supplied components instead of those from MSYS/MinGW
Download and extract CrossFire source to e.g. c:\cfsource.rxxxxx.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/files/crossfire-client/
Install latest CMake 32-bit:
Run CMake gui:
Set source code directory, e.g. c:/cfsource.rxxxxx
Set binary directory, e.g. c:/cfbuild
Click 'Configure' and choose 'MinGW Makefiles'
Change CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to something reasonable
(C:\Program Files (x86)\… is probably read only).
(Nothing seems to be put in this folder anyway?)
If CMake finds wrong include directories, e.g. from Visual Studio, change them manually to 'C:\msys32\mingw32\include'
If CMake fails near a pkgconfig or gtk/gio item, check to make sure that it hasn’t defaulted the PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE to a perl directory. If so, revert it to the msys32 one, probably C:\msys32\mingw32\bin\pkg-config.exe
Click “Configure” again, hope no errors occur.
Once it finally doesn’t have warnings or errors, Click 'generate'.
If configuring goes wrong, delete directory c:\cfbuild\CMakeFiles and try again.
Compile:
Open msys32 32-bit shell (“MSYS2 MinGW 32-bit” in the Start Menu)
Go to c:\cfbuild
run mingw32-make.exe
Create release package:
Run 'mingw32-make install', though it doesn't seem to do much.
Make directory 'release', somewhere in your system
Copy \cfbuild\bin\crossfire-client-gtk2.exe to release\
Create dir release\bin, and copy \cfbuild\bin\cfsndserv.exe to it
Copy directory 'share' to release\
At this point, the client should run more or less fine, at least in your dev environment. Now we need to prep it so it can be run on other systems (but this is the broken part).
In release, create a folder called “lib”, and copy “gdk-pixbuf-2.0” and “gtk-2.0” from “C:\msys32\mingw32\lib”.
This fixes some xpm warnings, and makes a few GUI icons render correctly, apparently a very few gui elements are xpm?
Fetch “msys32\mingw32\share\themes” and place it in “release\share\”. This fixes an issue that breaks the GTK theme.
Find the DLLs, and put them in release\
Most of the DLLs can be found in c:\msys32\bin. Currently includes:
libatk-1.0-0.dll libbrotlicommon.dll libbrotlidec.dll libbz2-1.dll libcairo-2.dll libcrypto-1_1.dll libcurl-4.dll libdatrie-1.dll libexpat-1.dll libffi-6.dll libfontconfig-1.dll libfreetype-6.dll libfribidi-0.dll libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll libgio-2.0-0.dll libglib-2.0-0.dll libgmodule-2.0-0.dll libgobject-2.0-0.dll libgraphite2.dll libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll libharfbuzz-0.dll libiconv-2.dll libidn2-0.dll libintl-8.dll libnghttp2-14.dll libpango-1.0-0.dll libpangocairo-1.0-0.dll libpangoft2-1.0-0.dll libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll libpcre-1.dll libpixman-1-0.dll libpng16-16.dll libpsl-5.dll libssl-1_1.dll libstdc++-6.dll libthai-0.dll libunistring-2.dll libwinpthread-1.dll SDL.dll zlib1.dll
Pull the release\ folder to another machine, and run
Weep because everything's on fire.
Find the rest of the DLLs from the 1.72.0 release.
Find any missing DLLs from official runtime distributions.
If DLLs are still missing, shed some tears.
I had to rename libpng16_16.dll to libpng14_14.dll. I have no idea what could have required libpng14, and libpng14 has serious vulnerabilities too. (Renaming DLLs is not safe either.)
