1Installation on Microsoft Windows: 2 3There are three ways to create binaries of this package for Microsoft Windows: 41) Native binaries, built using the mingw tool chain. 52) Native binaries, built using the MS Visual C/C++ tool chain. 63) Binaries for the Cygwin environment. 7 8=============================================================================== 91) Native binaries, built using the mingw tool chain. 10 11 I recommend to use the Cygwin environment as the development environment 12 and mingw only as the target (runtime, deployment) environment. 13 For this, you need to install 14 * Cygwin (from https://cygwin.com/), 15 * some packages available from the Cygwin package installer: 16 make 17 * the mingw cross-compilation tools and runtime package, available from 18 the Cygwin package installer (setup-x86_64.exe): 19 - for creating 32-bit binaries: packages 20 mingw64-i686-gcc-core, 21 mingw64-i686-headers, 22 mingw64-i686-runtime 23 - for creating 64-bit binaries: packages 24 mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core, 25 mingw64-x86_64-headers, 26 mingw64-x86_64-runtime 27 28 Building 32-bit binaries for mingw is achieved through the following 29 preparation, configure, and build commands: 30 31 PATH=/usr/local/mingw32/bin:$PATH 32 export PATH 33 ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/usr/local/mingw32 \ 34 CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc \ 35 CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/mingw32/include -Wall" \ 36 LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/mingw32/lib" 37 make 38 make check 39 40 Building 64-bit binaries for mingw is achieved through the following 41 preparation, configure, and build commands: 42 43 PATH=/usr/local/mingw64/bin:$PATH 44 export PATH 45 ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/usr/local/mingw64 \ 46 CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc \ 47 CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/mingw64/include -Wall" \ 48 LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/mingw64/lib" 49 make 50 make check 51 52 Installation: 53 54 make install 55 56=============================================================================== 572) Native binaries, built using the MS Visual C/C++ tool chain. 58 59 Note that binaries created with MSVC have a distribution constraint: They 60 depend on a closed-source library ('msvcr90.dll' for MSVC 9.0, 61 'vcruntime140.dll' for MSVC 14.0, and so on) which is not normally part of 62 a Windows installation. 63 You cannot distribute 'vcruntime*.dll' with the binaries - this would be a 64 violation of the GPL and of the Microsoft EULA. 65 You can distribute the binaries without including 'vcruntime*.dll'. Users 66 who don't have this library on their system will require to pull some files 67 (api-ms-win*.dll) through the Windows Update mechanism, see 68 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2999226 . 69 70 This recipe requires MS Visual C/C++ 9.0 or newer. 71 You don't need the Visual Studio IDE, just the C/C++ tool chain. 72 As of 2016, you can install the MS Visual C/C++ 14.0 tool chain from 73 http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools (it's the file 74 visualcppbuildtools_full.exe). 75 76 This recipe requires also a Cygwin environment (with 'bash', the common POSIX 77 commands, and 'make') as a build environment. Building with 'nmake' is not 78 supported. 79 For this, you need to install 80 * Cygwin (from https://cygwin.com/), 81 * some packages available from the Cygwin package installer: 82 make 83 84 You also need the scripts 'ar-lib' and 'compile' from 85 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git;a=blob_plain;f=lib/ar-lib;hb=HEAD 86 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git;a=blob_plain;f=lib/compile;hb=HEAD 87 respectively. 88 They may also be included in this package, in directory 'build-aux/'. 89 Save them; the instructions below assume that you stored them in $HOME/msvc/. 90 Make them executable: 91 chmod a+x ar-lib compile 92 93 Start a bash (from Cygwin). 94 95 Make sure that the MSVC tools ("cl" etc.) are found in PATH and the 96 environment variables INCLUDE and LIB are set appropriately. 97 In a typical MSVC 9.0 installation, it can be achieved by running 98 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat 99 In a typical MSVC 14.0 installation on Windows 10, it can be achieved 100 - for creating 32-bit binaries: through the following bash commands: 101 102 # Set environment variables for using MSVC 14, 103 # for creating native 32-bit Windows executables. 104 105 # Windows C library headers and libraries. 106 WindowsCrtIncludeDir='C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.10240.0\ucrt' 107 WindowsCrtLibDir='C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.10240.0\ucrt\' 108 INCLUDE="${WindowsCrtIncludeDir};$INCLUDE" 109 LIB="${WindowsCrtLibDir}x86;$LIB" 110 111 # Windows API headers and libraries. 112 WindowsSdkIncludeDir='C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\' 113 WindowsSdkLibDir='C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Lib\winv6.3\um\' 114 INCLUDE="${WindowsSdkIncludeDir}um;${WindowsSdkIncludeDir}shared;$INCLUDE" 115 LIB="${WindowsSdkLibDir}x86;$LIB" 116 117 # Visual C++ tools, headers and libraries. 118 VSINSTALLDIR='C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0' 119 VCINSTALLDIR="${VSINSTALLDIR}"'\VC' 120 PATH=`cygpath -u "${VCINSTALLDIR}"`/bin:"$PATH" 121 INCLUDE="${VCINSTALLDIR}"'\include;'"${INCLUDE}" 122 LIB="${VCINSTALLDIR}"'\lib;'"${LIB}" 123 124 export INCLUDE LIB 125 126 - for creating 64-bit binaries: through the following bash commands: 127 128 # Set environment variables for using MSVC 14, 129 # for creating native 64-bit Windows executables. 130 131 # Windows C library headers and libraries. 132 WindowsCrtIncludeDir='C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.10240.0\ucrt' 133 WindowsCrtLibDir='C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.10240.0\ucrt\' 134 INCLUDE="${WindowsCrtIncludeDir};$INCLUDE" 135 LIB="${WindowsCrtLibDir}x64;$LIB" 136 137 # Windows API headers and libraries. 138 WindowsSdkIncludeDir='C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\' 139 WindowsSdkLibDir='C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Lib\winv6.3\um\' 140 INCLUDE="${WindowsSdkIncludeDir}um;${WindowsSdkIncludeDir}shared;$INCLUDE" 141 LIB="${WindowsSdkLibDir}x64;$LIB" 142 143 # Visual C++ tools, headers and libraries. 144 VSINSTALLDIR='C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0' 145 VCINSTALLDIR="${VSINSTALLDIR}"'\VC' 146 PATH=`cygpath -u "${VCINSTALLDIR}"`/bin/amd64:"$PATH" 147 INCLUDE="${VCINSTALLDIR}"'\include;'"${INCLUDE}" 148 LIB="${VCINSTALLDIR}"'\lib\amd64;'"${LIB}" 149 150 export INCLUDE LIB 151 152 Building 32-bit binaries with MSVC is achieved through the following 153 preparation, configure, and build commands: 154 155 PATH=/usr/local/msvc32/bin:$PATH 156 export PATH 157 158 win32_target=_WIN32_WINNT_WINXP # for MSVC 9.0 159 win32_target=_WIN32_WINNT_VISTA # possibly for MSVC >= 10.0 160 win32_target=_WIN32_WINNT_WIN7 # possibly for MSVC >= 10.0 161 win32_target=_WIN32_WINNT_WIN8 # possibly for MSVC >= 10.0 162 163 ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/usr/local/msvc32 \ 164 CC="$HOME/msvc/compile cl -nologo" \ 165 CFLAGS="-MD" \ 166 CXX="$HOME/msvc/compile cl -nologo" \ 167 CXXFLAGS="-MD" \ 168 CPPFLAGS="-D_WIN32_WINNT=$win32_target -I/usr/local/msvc32/include" \ 169 LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/msvc32/lib" \ 170 LD="link" \ 171 NM="dumpbin -symbols" \ 172 STRIP=":" \ 173 AR="$HOME/msvc/ar-lib lib" \ 174 RANLIB=":" 175 make 176 make check 177 178 Building 64-bit binaries with MSVC is achieved through the following 179 preparation, configure, and build commands: 180 181 PATH=/usr/local/msvc64/bin:$PATH 182 export PATH 183 184 win32_target=_WIN32_WINNT_WINXP # for MSVC 9.0 185 win32_target=_WIN32_WINNT_VISTA # possibly for MSVC >= 10.0 186 win32_target=_WIN32_WINNT_WIN7 # possibly for MSVC >= 10.0 187 win32_target=_WIN32_WINNT_WIN8 # possibly for MSVC >= 10.0 188 189 ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/usr/local/msvc64 \ 190 CC="$HOME/msvc/compile cl -nologo" \ 191 CFLAGS="-MD" \ 192 CXX="$HOME/msvc/compile cl -nologo" \ 193 CXXFLAGS="-MD" \ 194 CPPFLAGS="-D_WIN32_WINNT=$win32_target -I/usr/local/msvc64/include" \ 195 LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/msvc64/lib" \ 196 LD="link" \ 197 NM="dumpbin -symbols" \ 198 STRIP=":" \ 199 AR="$HOME/msvc/ar-lib lib" \ 200 RANLIB=":" 201 make 202 make check 203 204 Installation: 205 206 make install 207 208=============================================================================== 2093) Binaries for the Cygwin environment. 210 211 The generic instructions in the INSTALL file apply. But here are more 212 specific ones. 213 214 You need to install 215 * Cygwin (from https://cygwin.com/), 216 * some packages available from the Cygwin package installer: 217 make 218 * the Cygwin [cross-]compilation tools package, available from 219 the Cygwin package installer (setup-x86_64.exe): 220 - for creating 32-bit binaries: packages 221 cygwin32-gcc-core, 222 cygwin32 223 - for creating 64-bit binaries: packages 224 gcc-core 225 226 Building 32-bit binaries for Cygwin must be done in a directory *outside* 227 the Cygwin /home and /usr hierarchies. It is achieved through the following 228 preparation, configure, and build commands: 229 230 PATH=/usr/local/cygwin32/bin:/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/sys-root/usr/bin:$PATH 231 export PATH 232 ./configure --host=i686-pc-cygwin --prefix=/usr/local/cygwin32 \ 233 CC=i686-pc-cygwin-gcc \ 234 CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/cygwin32/include -Wall" \ 235 LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/cygwin32/lib" 236 make 237 make check 238 239 Building 64-bit binaries for Cygwin is achieved through the following 240 preparation, configure, and build commands: 241 242 PATH=/usr/local/cygwin64/bin:$PATH 243 export PATH 244 ./configure --host=x86_64-pc-cygwin --prefix=/usr/local/cygwin64 \ 245 CC=x86_64-pc-cygwin-gcc \ 246 CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/cygwin64/include -Wall" \ 247 LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/cygwin64/lib" 248 make 249 make check 250 251 Installation: 252 253 make install 254 255=============================================================================== 256