Getting Unangband/Angband from SVN and Compiling on Windows

[Nick]

*coughs* http://cygwin.com/license.html

The cygwin DLL (which gets linked into your binary if you use -mno-cygwin) is GPL with an exception for applications with OSI-free licences. Angband isn't one of those, so you have no licence to distribute a cygwin-compiled version of the game under the Angband licence...

Not that I suspect anyone will care, anyway. Licencing sucks.

Oh, super. I'll probably adopt my usual strategy of ignoring the problem and hoping it goes away. If anyone sues me I'll plead religious exemption - the God of Lazy People gets wrathful (well, mildly put out) if any of His followers even think about licencing issues.

[andrewdoull]

Oh, super. I'll probably adopt my usual strategy of ignoring the problem and hoping it goes away. If anyone sues me I'll plead religious exemption - the God of Lazy People gets wrathful (well, mildly put out) if any of His followers even think about licencing issues.

Mingw is not that bad... link to downloader posted earlier in the thread

[takkaria]

Ah suckage. I know GCC have a special clause that extempts binaries compiled with it (against it runtime libraries) from being GPL-poisoned. Too bad Red Hat haven't did the same for Cygwin.

They do... if you pay them lots of money.

[Bandobras]

Repeated downloading a zip file is no big deal in broadband times

Yes, but you easily see with SVN if and what has changed and can easily display commit messages for the changes to see what is happening, revert some of the last changes if they break the game, merge effortlessly your private hacks (e.g. to lib/edit files), etc., etc. Not to mention contributing...

[pav]

Now that goes a lot above an ordinary player wanting to play development snapshot of the game

Sure, if you maintain local patches, full blown svn is a good thing to have.

[Nick]

Mingw is not that bad... link to downloader posted earlier in the thread

Yes, and I guess that's what I'll do. In fact, I guess I started using cygwin because it was above mingw on RR's compilation instructions on thangorodrim, and never had a reason not to. Now I have.

[takkaria]

Maybe check some environment variables? I know one can set whatever variables he wants, but how many linux people have (for example) OS set to Windows_NT ? (just copied my results, so YMMV)

I went for route of testing the PATH variable to see if it contains "WINDOWS\system32". This means that V should now work using Makefile.win and you've no need to move the executable manually.

For the method, see:

http://angband.rogueforge.net/trac/browser/trunk/src/Makefile.win

[Faust]

I went for route of testing the PATH variable to see if it contains "WINDOWS\system32". This means that V should now work using Makefile.win and you've no need to move the executable manually.

For the method, see:
http://angband.rogueforge.net/trac/b...c/Makefile.win

This Won't work for Win NT or Windows 2000 as they use \Winnt\

[andrewdoull]

This Won't work for Win NT or Windows 2000 as they use \Winnt\

Technically you should be testing for %systemdir%.

You'll probably want to use the 'ver' command if possible.

Andrew

[Bodkin]

Has something changed since this was composed?

I guess I'll have to be the clueless one (or at least, the one who steps forward to be counted) ... I am still having some trouble here. I appreciate the guide, and I really want to make this thing work, but the compile process leaves me stranded. It creates a long series of object files (apparently all of them), but then yields the following, as it pulls its oars out of the water:

gcc: no input files
mingw32-make: *** [win/readdib.o] Error 1

To get this far, I did have to improvise somewhat, as not all of the menu choices still match what this guide forecasts (e.g., in step 3, there is no longer a "Mylar Integration" to de-select). And I had to go into the project properties and change Cygwin to Mingw wherever it appeared just to get the build started. Could there be some other configuration variable I have to mess with in Eclipse? Or could there be something I touched that I shouldn't have? (Aware of my ignorance, I touched as little as possible.)

I duplicated the problem when using the stable source code for version 3.0.9 (imported locally from the .tar.gz), so I doubt that the code could be the problem. Sadly, my experience with IDEs and makefiles is exceedingly spotty. But maybe my woes can serve as illumination (or as a cautionary tale) for others.

Thanks in advance for any clarification anyone can offer!

[andrewdoull]

I guess I'll have to be the clueless one (or at least, the one who steps forward to be counted) ... I am still having some trouble here. I appreciate the guide, and I really want to make this thing work, but the compile process leaves me stranded. It creates a long series of object files (apparently all of them), but then yields the following, as it pulls its oars out of the water:

gcc: no input files
mingw32-make: *** [win/readdib.o] Error 1

I think something has 'broken' for this. Unfortunately, I'm without a computer at the moment and can't test this.

Try bringing up a cmd prompt, and changing into the angband/src directory (use the cd command).

Then try the command mingw32-make -f makefile.win

That should generate a angband.exe which you can copy up one directory.

Andrew

[ekolis]

Hmmm, I wonder if it would make things easier to include a .sln file and direct people to Visual C++ 2008 Express?

[Bandobras]

Somewhat off-topic, but here is a _trivial_ way to obtain a Windows binary, if you have Linux with apt (Debian, Ubuntu, others). It really worked so easily for me.

http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showpost.php?p=4414&postcount=9

[Zero]

Has anyone tried compiling Vanilla with Netbeans 6.0? I've been using Java, so I'm used to Netbeans, and it would be great to be able to compile Angband without having to install a new compiler.

[ekolis]

Doesn't sound too hard - Netbeans is pretty easy to use
Can't say for certain that I've actually tried it - but I imagine it's not difficult!