Re: [DM-dev] Compile question

[Henningsen <pe...@al...>]

>Forgive the ignorance of a spoiled Windows developer.  I'd like to compile
the latest Dungeon Maker code for Windows, and I've downloaded MinGW, but
I'm not sure what to do from there.  I tend to get lost if there's not a
.dsp file :(  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Ahh, Eric, I'm a spoiled Windows developer myself, and just getting used to
this gcc stuff. Up to version 1.0 of the DungeonMaker, I compiled it for
Windows simply by dumping all my source files into the gcc/bin directory
that you get when installing MinGW, and then executing make.exe. That makes
it unneccessary to set any search paths, and works well enough for just
plain .cpp and .h files.

However, since I've included the SDL library, I haven't tried compiling for
Windows. If you want to be the brave trailbraker who does it, there's two
options: You could get SDL-devel version 1.08 from http://libsdl.org, and
use whatever tips they give there on compiling SDL-applications on
Windows/MinGW. However, in the latest version of SDL, version 1.2, they have
apparently abandoned MinGW, and give instructions for compiling
SDL-applications in MSVC++ v6. If you have Microsoft's sleek compiler, your
best bet would be to get SDL version 1.2, and use the process described for
compiling SDL-apps on that. Someone just put a tutorial for that on the web,
not on libsdl.org, you might have to google for that, or be lucky finding a
link.

There's also a problem on Linux, because the make-file that comes with the
program links to SDL as a shared library, and you need the shared library
SDL 1.0x to run the executable I produced. It does not seem to work with the
latest SDL-version 1.2. Because of this, I'd actually prefer to link
statically to SDL, but I haven't put my mind to it yet. I much prefer to
program, and I'm deeply into re-writing the DungeonMaker code from scratch. 

By the time I get version 2.0 of the Dungeonmaker out the door, I'll try to
get it to compile with static libraries, and on Windows too. Maybe I'll even
get the latest MSVC.NET to do it. Until then, if you *do* manage to compile
it for Windows, let me know, and we can release the executable on SourceForge.

Peter