README.windows

   1 Installation on Microsoft Windows:
   2
   3 There are three ways to create binaries of this package for Microsoft Windows:
   4 1) Native binaries, built using the mingw tool chain.
   5 2) Native binaries, built using the MS Visual C/C++ tool chain.
   6 3) Binaries for the Cygwin environment.
   7
   8 ===============================================================================
   9 1) 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 ===============================================================================
  57 2) 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="$HOME/msvc/ar-lib lib" \
 200             RANLIB=":"
 201       make
 202       make check
 203
 204    Installation:
 205
 206       make install
 207
 208 ===============================================================================
 209 3) Binaries for the Cygwin environment.
 210
 211    The generic instructions in the INSTALL file apply. But here are more
 212    specific ones.
 213
 214    You need to install
 215      * Cygwin (from https://cygwin.com/),
 216      * some packages available from the Cygwin package installer:
 217          make
 218      * the Cygwin [cross-]compilation tools package, available from
 219        the Cygwin package installer (setup-x86_64.exe):
 220        - for creating 32-bit binaries: packages
 221            cygwin32-gcc-core,
 222            cygwin32
 223        - for creating 64-bit binaries: packages
 224            gcc-core
 225
 226    Building 32-bit binaries for Cygwin must be done in a directory *outside*
 227    the Cygwin /home and /usr hierarchies. It is achieved through the following
 228    preparation, configure, and build commands:
 229
 230       PATH=/usr/local/cygwin32/bin:/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/sys-root/usr/bin:$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 ===============================================================================