1 Installation on Microsoft Windows:
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.
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9 1) Native binaries, built using the mingw tool chain.
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:
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,
23 - for creating 64-bit binaries: packages
24 mingw64-x86_64-gcc-core,
25 mingw64-x86_64-headers,
26 mingw64-x86_64-runtime
28 Building 32-bit binaries for mingw is achieved through the following
29 preparation, configure, and build commands:
31 PATH=/usr/local/mingw32/bin:$PATH
33 ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/usr/local/mingw32 \
34 CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc \
35 CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/mingw32/include -Wall" \
36 LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/mingw32/lib"
40 Building 64-bit binaries for mingw is achieved through the following
41 preparation, configure, and build commands:
43 PATH=/usr/local/mingw64/bin:$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"
56 (*) Note: The MSYS2 environment as a development environment is *not*
57 supported. This environment contains an ignoble and ignominious hack:
58 In a program invocation, the program *by default* receives different
59 arguments than the ones that the caller has passed. See
60 <https://www.msys2.org/wiki/Porting/#filesystem-namespaces>.
61 All program invocations in this environment are therefore unreliable.
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64 2) Native binaries, built using the MS Visual C/C++ tool chain.
66 Note that binaries created with MSVC have a distribution constraint: They
67 depend on a closed-source library ('msvcr90.dll' for MSVC 9.0,
68 'vcruntime140.dll' for MSVC 14.0, and so on) which is not normally part of
69 a Windows installation.
70 You cannot distribute 'vcruntime*.dll' with the binaries - this would be a
71 violation of the GPL and of the Microsoft EULA.
72 You can distribute the binaries without including 'vcruntime*.dll'. Users
73 who don't have this library on their system will require to pull some files
74 (api-ms-win*.dll) through the Windows Update mechanism, see
75 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2999226 .
77 This recipe requires MS Visual C/C++ 9.0 or newer.
78 You don't need the Visual Studio IDE, just the C/C++ tool chain.
79 As of 2016, you can install the MS Visual C/C++ 14.0 tool chain from
80 http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools (it's the file
81 visualcppbuildtools_full.exe).
83 This recipe requires also a Cygwin environment (with 'bash', the common POSIX
84 commands, and 'make') as a build environment. Building with 'nmake' is not
86 For this, you need to install
87 * Cygwin (from https://cygwin.com/),
88 * some packages available from the Cygwin package installer:
91 You also need the scripts 'ar-lib' and 'compile' from
92 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git;a=blob_plain;f=lib/ar-lib;hb=HEAD
93 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git;a=blob_plain;f=lib/compile;hb=HEAD
95 They may also be included in this package, in directory 'build-aux/'.
96 Save them; the instructions below assume that you stored them in $HOME/msvc/.
98 chmod a+x ar-lib compile
100 Start a bash (from Cygwin).
102 Make sure that the MSVC tools ("cl" etc.) are found in PATH and the
103 environment variables INCLUDE and LIB are set appropriately.
104 In a typical MSVC 9.0 installation, it can be achieved by running
105 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat
106 In a typical MSVC 14.0 installation on Windows 10, it can be achieved
107 - for creating 32-bit binaries: through the following bash commands:
109 # Set environment variables for using MSVC 14,
110 # for creating native 32-bit Windows executables.
112 # Windows C library headers and libraries.
113 WindowsCrtIncludeDir='C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.10240.0\ucrt'
114 WindowsCrtLibDir='C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.10240.0\ucrt\'
115 INCLUDE="${WindowsCrtIncludeDir};$INCLUDE"
116 LIB="${WindowsCrtLibDir}x86;$LIB"
118 # Windows API headers and libraries.
119 WindowsSdkIncludeDir='C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\'
120 WindowsSdkLibDir='C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Lib\winv6.3\um\'
121 INCLUDE="${WindowsSdkIncludeDir}um;${WindowsSdkIncludeDir}shared;$INCLUDE"
122 LIB="${WindowsSdkLibDir}x86;$LIB"
124 # Visual C++ tools, headers and libraries.
125 VSINSTALLDIR='C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0'
126 VCINSTALLDIR="${VSINSTALLDIR}"'\VC'
127 PATH=`cygpath -u "${VCINSTALLDIR}"`/bin:"$PATH"
128 INCLUDE="${VCINSTALLDIR}"'\include;'"${INCLUDE}"
129 LIB="${VCINSTALLDIR}"'\lib;'"${LIB}"
133 - for creating 64-bit binaries: through the following bash commands:
135 # Set environment variables for using MSVC 14,
136 # for creating native 64-bit Windows executables.
138 # Windows C library headers and libraries.
139 WindowsCrtIncludeDir='C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.10240.0\ucrt'
140 WindowsCrtLibDir='C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.10240.0\ucrt\'
141 INCLUDE="${WindowsCrtIncludeDir};$INCLUDE"
142 LIB="${WindowsCrtLibDir}x64;$LIB"
144 # Windows API headers and libraries.
145 WindowsSdkIncludeDir='C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\'
146 WindowsSdkLibDir='C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Lib\winv6.3\um\'
147 INCLUDE="${WindowsSdkIncludeDir}um;${WindowsSdkIncludeDir}shared;$INCLUDE"
148 LIB="${WindowsSdkLibDir}x64;$LIB"
150 # Visual C++ tools, headers and libraries.
151 VSINSTALLDIR='C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0'
152 VCINSTALLDIR="${VSINSTALLDIR}"'\VC'
153 PATH=`cygpath -u "${VCINSTALLDIR}"`/bin/amd64:"$PATH"
154 INCLUDE="${VCINSTALLDIR}"'\include;'"${INCLUDE}"
155 LIB="${VCINSTALLDIR}"'\lib\amd64;'"${LIB}"
159 Building 32-bit binaries with MSVC is achieved through the following
160 preparation, configure, and build commands:
162 PATH=/usr/local/msvc32/bin:$PATH
165 win32_target=_WIN32_WINNT_WINXP # for MSVC 9.0
166 win32_target=_WIN32_WINNT_VISTA # possibly for MSVC >= 10.0
167 win32_target=_WIN32_WINNT_WIN7 # possibly for MSVC >= 10.0
168 win32_target=_WIN32_WINNT_WIN8 # possibly for MSVC >= 10.0
170 ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/usr/local/msvc32 \
171 CC="$HOME/msvc/compile cl -nologo" \
173 CXX="$HOME/msvc/compile cl -nologo" \
175 CPPFLAGS="-D_WIN32_WINNT=$win32_target -I/usr/local/msvc32/include" \
176 LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/msvc32/lib" \
178 NM="dumpbin -symbols" \
180 AR="$HOME/msvc/ar-lib lib" \
185 Building 64-bit binaries with MSVC is achieved through the following
186 preparation, configure, and build commands:
188 PATH=/usr/local/msvc64/bin:$PATH
191 win32_target=_WIN32_WINNT_WINXP # for MSVC 9.0
192 win32_target=_WIN32_WINNT_VISTA # possibly for MSVC >= 10.0
193 win32_target=_WIN32_WINNT_WIN7 # possibly for MSVC >= 10.0
194 win32_target=_WIN32_WINNT_WIN8 # possibly for MSVC >= 10.0
196 ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/usr/local/msvc64 \
197 CC="$HOME/msvc/compile cl -nologo" \
199 CXX="$HOME/msvc/compile cl -nologo" \
201 CPPFLAGS="-D_WIN32_WINNT=$win32_target -I/usr/local/msvc64/include" \
202 LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/msvc64/lib" \
204 NM="dumpbin -symbols" \
206 AR="$HOME/msvc/ar-lib lib" \
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216 3) Binaries for the Cygwin environment.
218 The generic instructions in the INSTALL file apply. But here are more
222 * Cygwin (from https://cygwin.com/),
223 * some packages available from the Cygwin package installer:
225 * the Cygwin [cross-]compilation tools package, available from
226 the Cygwin package installer (setup-x86_64.exe):
227 - for creating 32-bit binaries: packages
230 - for creating 64-bit binaries: packages
233 Building 32-bit binaries for Cygwin must be done in a directory *outside*
234 the Cygwin /home and /usr hierarchies. It is achieved through the following
235 preparation, configure, and build commands:
237 PATH=/usr/local/cygwin32/bin:/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/sys-root/usr/bin:$PATH
239 ./configure --host=i686-pc-cygwin --prefix=/usr/local/cygwin32 \
240 CC=i686-pc-cygwin-gcc \
241 CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/cygwin32/include -Wall" \
242 LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/cygwin32/lib"
246 Building 64-bit binaries for Cygwin is achieved through the following
247 preparation, configure, and build commands:
249 PATH=/usr/local/cygwin64/bin:$PATH
251 ./configure --host=x86_64-pc-cygwin --prefix=/usr/local/cygwin64 \
252 CC=x86_64-pc-cygwin-gcc \
253 CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/cygwin64/include -Wall" \
254 LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/cygwin64/lib"
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