Compile raine in Windows

[theelf]

Hi tux! any advice how to compile in windows?

 

In DOS with djgpp was easy, but i did not have good luck with mingw in windows

 

 

Im using XP x64 (i have mingw 32bits and mingw64) but my test are in 32bits compiler

 

 

Thanks in advance for any tips

[Tux]

About that you were the one who asked the pre-compiled libs weren't you ? I never got any feedback about that !

The main (only ?) difference between djgpp and the other platforms is that there is alot more dependancies with the other platforms. You got a pretty clear message when you are missing one. It's long and tedious to compile everything when you are starting from scratch but the libs need to be compiled only once.

Some of these libs are hard to compile as a dll, but you are not obliged to make dlls here, and it will work the same way in raine.

Without any precise problem I can't tell anything anymore !

[theelf]

Hi tux

 

I dont remember asking precompiled libs... maybe is not me!! (if is me... please send me the post, and I will give you feedback...and sorry)

 

 

About mingw

 

first i set the OStype

 

 

export OSTYPE=windows

 

 

then make

 

$ make
Building Raine, Fully optimized version with gcc for windows CPU=pentium-m
dependencies : if you get an error here, install the required dev package
libpng:1.6.8
SDL:1.2.14
Compiling source/neocd/cdrom.c...
In file included from source/raine.h:32:0,
                 from source/neocd/cdrom.c:2:
source/sdl/compat.h:85:6: error: conflicting types for 'strlwr'
 void strlwr(char *s);
      ^
In file included from source/raine.h:18:0,
                 from source/neocd/cdrom.c:2:
c:\src\mingw\include\string.h:102:39: note: previous declaration of 'strlwr' was
 here
 _CRTIMP char* __cdecl __MINGW_NOTHROW strlwr (char*);
                                       ^
make: *** [windows-sdl/object/neocd/cdrom.o] Error 1

 

 

 

 

I have SDL and libpng, Im sure it works, because i can compile dosbox and scummvm witthout problems

[Tux]

Maybe it's not you, anyway it was in the older forum so I don't have the post here anyway...

1st I have not used mingw in ages, I have been compiling windows binaries from linux for years now, so maybe I'll have forgotten a few things.

You need to use the msys shell, install it if it's not the case, normally if you use it OSTYPE will be defined to msys without doing anything, that's what you need 1st.

Do that and post again if you have some more problems !

 

For the strlwr definition, it had disappeared from the mingw headers a long time ago, you are sure you are using some recent mingw version ?

Well if it's really the latest stable mingw version and you really have a conflict here, then you'll have to comment out strlwr from source/sdl/compat.h and source/sdl/compat.c.

For info my string.h is from mingw runtime (called mingwrt here : https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Base/mingwrt/ ) version 3.18. From my crosscompile environment, 3.18 is said stable, 3.20 and 3.20.2 are "testing" (maybe still in this state because not enough testers) and 4.0.3.1 is said unstable, so I think I'll keep 3.18 for now.

 

While I am at it for the dependancies you'll need :

libpng (well you have it obviously even if it's not the latest version, if you get an error while compiling related to png stuff then it's too old)

sdl (latest is 1.2.15, you can keep 1.2.14 if you want)

sdl-image

sdl-ttf

sdl-sound (preferably the mercury one because the latest "stable" one is unable to read mp3s containing id3 tags which can be a problem)

muparser

 

And then depending on the audio cdecs and the pictures formats you want, you might need some more libs (libjpeg, libvorbis, libogg, libflac, libmpg123 if using mercury version of sdl-sound, otherwise it's an outdated mp3 lib I forgot about, etc...).

And you can find the pre-compiled stuff there : http://raine.1emulation.com/download/dev.html

sorry I didn't show the versions used, just the dates the packages were made that's all. I never had any feedback about these packages, but if they are correct you just need to unpack them at the root of your mingw installation, below the include and lib directories.

Good luck !

Edited April 11, 2016 by Tux