Getting Unangband/Angband from SVN and Compiling on Windows

[Zero]

Okay, I went through the instruction list, and got stuck at #12. There was no "Standard Make C Project" so I just chose "C Project". There were some other changes I made, like I selected minGW instead of Cygwin at one point.

Somehow, I managed to get the trunk directory downloaded, but when I tried to build it, it generated 57 errors, all in "z-file.c". Here's two:

`FAIL' undeclared (first use in this function), z-file.c, line 27

syntax error before "int", z-file.c, line 310



I know the C programming language, but do everything in Java these days, and I've never used minGW or Eclipse, so I really have no idea what I'm doing. Any help would be appreciated.

[takkaria]

Okay, I went through the instruction list, and got stuck at #12. There was no "Standard Make C Project" so I just chose "C Project". There were some other changes I made, like I selected minGW instead of Cygwin at one point.

Somehow, I managed to get the trunk directory downloaded, but when I tried to build it, it generated 57 errors, all in "z-file.c". Here's two:

`FAIL' undeclared (first use in this function), z-file.c, line 27

syntax error before "int", z-file.c, line 310



I know the C programming language, but do everything in Java these days, and I've never used minGW or Eclipse, so I really have no idea what I'm doing. Any help would be appreciated.

I think you want to exclude the "tests" directory from the files you include in the project.

[Zero]

I think you want to exclude the "tests" directory from the files you include in the project.

Done, but now the build generates 69 errors. However, all the errors are confined to readdib.c and main-win.c. Here's one of them:

undefined reference to `AddFontResourceA@4', main-win.c, line 1486

[takkaria]

Done, but now the build generates 69 errors. However, all the errors are confined to readdib.c and main-win.c. Here's one of them:

undefined reference to `AddFontResourceA@4', main-win.c, line 1486

Try "make -f Makefile.win MINGW=yes" instead.

[Zero]

I got it down to 29 errors by changing the active build configuration to Release, but that's just a stab in the dark.

> Try "make -f Makefile.win MINGW=yes" instead.

Thinking that this might be a command for DOS, I got the usual "make is not a recognized internal or external command...". My first thought was that I should change the build command in Eclipse to that string, but I don't know how to do that, because I suck.

[zaimoni]

Ok...I have zero familiarity with Eclipse as an IDE, but I'm mildly surprised that you have MingW32 installed but not (GNU) make. (Yes, it's its very own package in the vast MingW32 distribution. But not that difficult to build from source if you have bash installed to run configure scripts; its configure script works fairly well in Windows, unlike quite a few others).

[Zero]

Ok...I have zero familiarity with Eclipse as an IDE, but I'm mildly surprised that you have MingW32 installed but not (GNU) make. (Yes, it's its very own package in the vast MingW32 distribution. But not that difficult to build from source if you have bash installed to run configure scripts; its configure script works fairly well in Windows, unlike quite a few others).

I just followed the instructions in the first post in this thread as best as I could. Like I said, I've been using Java, so I don't have any C/C++ tools installed.

What should I do?

[Daven_26d1]

You missed the bit in step #4 that suggests your gonna need to install Make along with that mingW32 environment, so it would be a good bet to try that.

[Zero]

You missed the bit in step #4 that suggests your gonna need to install Make along with that mingW32 environment, so it would be a good bet to try that.

I did that. I checked that box.

[zaimoni]

I just followed the instructions in the first post in this thread as best as I could. Like I said, I've been using Java, so I don't have any C/C++ tools installed.

What should I do?

Seeing that you did check the box on #4, you're going to have to find where the installer misplaced make.

make-mingw32.exe or similar would be my first guess for a misplacement.

[Zero]

Where is make supposed to go? My system drive is E:\, not the standard C:\. Would that require some kind of change?

I couldn't find make-mingw32.exe anywhere on my hard drive.

[zaimoni]

Where is make supposed to go? My system drive is E:\, not the standard C:\. Would that require some kind of change?

Very minor change -- to your PATH. There should be no difference in actual command-line usage. The primary bin directory for MingW32 should be on your PATH, and should also have installed to it:
* make.exe
* the binutils toolset (for the linker ld and assembler as, etc.)

Both of these are separate downloads from the MingW32 compilers.

To check whether the main MingW32 bin directory is on your path, try to run gcc --help. If that runs, installing the above packages should work if they aren't there already.

If not, you'll have to find gcc.exe [should be two copies, you want the one with the shorter directory to it], then use the System control to put the shorter directory on your PATH. I'd do this for all users if possible.

[Zero]

> To check whether the main MingW32 bin directory is on your
> path, try to run gcc --help.

That works.

> The primary bin directory for MingW32 should be on your PATH,

It is.

> and should also have installed to it:
> * make.exe

There is a file in MinGW\bin called mingw32-make.exe. There is no file called make.exe anywhere.

> * the binutils toolset (for the linker ld and assembler as, etc.)

Also in MinGW\bin there is as.exe and ld.exe.

I still don't know what to do at this point.

[andrewdoull]

> To check whether the main MingW32 bin directory is on your
> path, try to run gcc --help.

That works.

> The primary bin directory for MingW32 should be on your PATH,

It is.

> and should also have installed to it:
> * make.exe

There is a file in MinGW\bin called mingw32-make.exe. There is no file called make.exe anywhere.

> * the binutils toolset (for the linker ld and assembler as, etc.)

Also in MinGW\bin there is as.exe and ld.exe.

I still don't know what to do at this point.

Ensure that mingw\bin is in your path environmental variable.

Cd into the angband\src directory.

Use the command

mingw32-make.exe -f makefile.win

That should do it IIRC (mingw32-make.exe is the mingw equivalent of make).


Andrew

[zaimoni]

There is a file in MinGW\bin called mingw32-make.exe. There is no file called make.exe anywhere.

That's it.

Rename or copy that file to make.exe.