WinBuildQt4

How to build Qmmp for MS Windows (Qt4-based version)

1. Install 7-Zip, NSIS, Subversion and CMake 3.13.5

2. Create initial directory structure

C:/devel
|--mingw32
|--msys
|--mingw32-libs

3. Download i686-4.9.4-release-posix-dwarf-rt_v5-rev0.7z from here and unpack it to C:/devel/mingw32

4. Download msys+7za+wget+svn+git+mercurial+cvs-rev13.7z from here and unpack it to C:/devel/msys

• Replace C:/devel/msys/bin/wget.exe by wget.exe 1.19.4 (Last version with Windows XP support)
• Update root certificates from here if required.
• Remove old svn client: C:/devel/msys/bin/svn.exe

5. Create environment variables PATH and QTDIR with the following content:

PATH=C:\devel\msys\bin;C:\devel\qt4\bin;C:\devel\mingw32\bin;C:\devel\mingw32\opt\bin;C:\devel\mingw32-libs\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\7-Zip;C:\Program Files\7-Zip;C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin
QTDIR=C:\devel\qt4

6. Download latest Qt4 snapshot. You should start cmd.exe and execute the following commands:

cd C:/devel/
git clone git://code.qt.io/qt/qt.git qt4
cd qt4
git checkout 4.8

Do not close cmd.exe before next step.

7. Apply patches to Qt4:

wget https://svn.code.sf.net/p/qmmp-dev/code/trunk/patches/qt-4.8.6-fix-win7-tooltip.diff
cat qt-4.8.6-fix-win7-tooltip.diff | patch -p1

Do not close cmd.exe before next step.

8. Compile Qt4 using the following commands:

configure -release -nomake demos -nomake examples -openssl-linked OPENSSL_LIBS="-lcrypto.dll -lssl.dll"  -I c:/devel/mingw32/opt/include -L c:/devel/mingw32/opt/lib
cd tools
cd configure
qmake
mingw32-make
cd ..
cd ..
mingw32-make confclean
configure -release -nomake demos -nomake examples -openssl-linked OPENSSL_LIBS="-lcrypto.dll -lssl.dll"  -I c:/devel/mingw32/opt/include -L c:/devel/mingw32/opt/lib
mingw32-make -j4

9. Download qmmp build scripts

cd C:\devel
svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/qmmp-dev/code/trunk/extras/package/win32/ qmmp-win32

10. Check paths in the following files:

C:\devel\qmmp-win32\start_sh.cmd
C:\devel\qmmp-win32\qmmp-0-win32.sh
C:\devel\qmmp-win32\contrib\mingw-libs.sh
C:\devel\qmmp-win32\contrib\start_sh.cmd

11. Install all required libraries. You should start C:\devel\qmmp-win32\contrib\start_sh.cmd and execute the following commands:

./mingw-libs.sh --download
./mingw-libs.sh --install

12. Open c:\devel\qt4\mkspecs\win32-g++\qmake.conf and change following lines:

#before
QMAKE_INCDIR        =
QMAKE_INCDIR_QT     = $$[QT_INSTALL_HEADERS]
QMAKE_LIBDIR_QT     = $$[QT_INSTALL_LIBS]

#after
QMAKE_INCDIR        += C:/devel/mingw32-libs/include
QMAKE_LIBDIR        += C:/devel/mingw32-libs/lib
QMAKE_INCDIR_QT     = $$[QT_INSTALL_HEADERS]
QMAKE_LIBDIR_QT     = $$[QT_INSTALL_LIBS]

13. Compile and prepare qmmp package. You should start C:\devel\qmmp-win32\start_sh.cmd and execute the following commands:

./qmmp-0-win32.sh --download
./qmmp-0-win32.sh --install

14. All required files will be in the directory C:\devel\qmmp-win32\tmp\qmmp-distr. Add extra files, modify qmmp.nsi and create package using nsis installed before.