Flexible Isometric Free Engine Files

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FIFE Win32 DevKit January 2010
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Notes:
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Created this installer to correspond with FIFE 0.3.0


Changes:
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N/A

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FIFE Win32 DevKit December 2009
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Changes:
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* Updated scons to 1.2.2


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FIFE Win32 DevKit November 2009
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Changes:
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* Updated SDL to 1.2.14
* Updated guichan to 0.8.2; applied key.hpp utf8 workaround, built against updated SDL lib
* Updated mingw to 4.4.1-tdm-2 from http://tdragon.net/recentgcc/
* Updated Python to 2.6 and got rid of debug lib versions for MSVC that were not actually used
* Updated SWIG to 1.3.40 

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Installation / build process
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1. Check out the latest engine sources from SVN or update your SVN checkout in case you have already checked out from SVN before:
Repository URL: http://fife.svn.cvsdude.com/engine/trunk

2. Get ActivePython 2.6 and install it to a location of your choice:
http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePython/windows/2.6/ActivePython-2.6.4.8-win32-x86.msi

3. In case you've built FIFE with an older compile SDK in the past, either run the uninstaller or run <FIFE>\build\win32\delete_sdk.bat to get rid of the old SDK files

4. Extraction process
4.1 Extract the content of the compile SDK to:
<FIFE>\build\win32\
4.2 Check if there is an <FIFE>\build\win32\applications folder; if it's in place, you know that you extracted the SDK into the correct location. One possible issue is that you've checked out the whole engine SVN repository instead of just trunk. In this case extract the compile SDK to:
<FIFE>\trunk\build\win32 (if you want to compile trunk, otherwhise it needs to be extracted into the build\win32 directory of the branch that you want to compile)


5.1 Run <FIFE>\trunk\build\win32\update_project_files.bat.
5.2 Build files for each supported IDE can be found in the sub-directories of <FIFE>\build\win32\build_environments (code_blocks, scons, visual_studio_8, visual_studio_9). See http://wiki.fifengine.de/Guides_%26_tutorials#Win32 for more information.

6. The final dynamic library (_fife.pyd) is automatically moved to:
<FIFE>\engine\python\fife

7. You can now start your custom FIFE build by launching the python scripts that reside in the subdirectories of <FIFE>\demos