Compiling Mudlet on Windows
February 4th, 2009
These instructions outline how to compile Mudlet on Windows. If you’d just like to download an already compiled version for you, you can get it from here.
Step 1: Download everything
- download latest Mudlet sources from SVN
- the latest cmake binary for windows
- zlib compiled dll
- latest source package of QScintilla2
- lua-5.1 sources (you can use jZip to extract the .tar.gz archive)
- Download PCRE.
- Qt on Windows with MinGW included (if that download is slow, you can downloading directly from us)
Step 2: Install stuff
- Install Qt in the C:\Mudlet\Qt\4.4.3 folder
- When installing, make sure to select “Download and install minimal MinGW installation” to C:\Mudlet\MinGW
- Don’t “download MinGW source code”
- Install CMake
- Select “Add CMake to the system path for the current user”
- Install in C:\Mudlet\CMake 2.6
Step 3: Set paths
- Go to the Control Panel → System → Advanced → Enviroment Variables → and double-click on Path under Enviroment Variables
- Now add the path to include paths to zlib, cmake, Qt and Lua. Assuming you downloaded all sources to your C:\Mudlet folder (as demonstrated here), they will be the following (otherwise, adjust as necessary:
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;C:\Mudlet\CMake 2.6\bin;C:\Mudlet\MinGW\bin;C:\Mudlet\MinGW\mingw32\bin;C:\Mudlet\Qt\4.4.3\bin;C:\Mudlet\zlib123-dll\lib;C:\Mudlet\zlib123-dll\include;C:\Mudlet\lua-5.1.4\src;C:\Mudlet\Qt\4.4.3\qmake;C:\Mudlet\pcre-7.8 - To set this, double-click on PATH under System Variables, and append the line above to it.
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Step 2: Start building
- Build QScintilla2
- Open cmd (Start → Run… → cmd) and use cd to navigate to qscintilla’s directory. Then do:
- cd Qt4
- qmake qscintilla.pro
- make
- make install
- Build Lua
- cd to lua’s directory and then:
- make mingw
- Build PCRE
- cd to PCRE’s directory and then:
- cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON -G “MinGw Makefiles”
- make
Step 4: Finish building
- Now lets build Mudlet itself
- cd mudletsrc
- cmake -G “MinGW Makefiles”
- make
- Or you can use CMake’s gui (start → program files → cmake) to find the Mudlet .cmake file and choose the “MinGW Makefiles” option.
That’s it! Enjoy your mudlet.exe 