How setup Dev-C++ to compile TMW on a Win32 Box =============================================== The Mana World project ====================== Homepage: themanaworld.sourceforge.net IRC: irc.freenode.net / #manaworld 0. Index ======== 1. Requirements 2. Installing Dev-C++ 3. Installing the required libraries 4. Compiling The Mana World 1. Requirements =============== In this tutorial we will use Dev-C++ because of the fact that it's a very good free IDE for Win32 built around GCC. Remember, Win32 was not meant for GCC and stuff so you will probably run into trouble unless you really know what you're doing, so best stick with Dev-C++. Besides a C++ compiler, TMW depends on the following libraries: 1) SDL 2) SDL_mixer 3) SDL_image 4) Guichan 0.2.0 5) libxml2 2. Installing Dev-C++ ===================== I recommend that you get the latest beta version, which is 4.9.9.1 at the time of writing. Though this tutorial is written for and tested with that, it may also apply to the latest stable version. Get Dev-C++ here: http://www.bloodshed.net/ After you fetched it simply run and install. 3. Installing the required libraries ==================================== The easy way is to get our development package which should work with the latest CVS (I'll try to update it as much as I can). You can find it at: http://themanaworld.homeip.net/tmw-cvs.DevPak Just install this one and you should be ready to go. Remember to copy the required dlls from your dll folder in the Dev-Cpp root directory, to the folder where you have your copy of The Mana World. If you can't get the package or experiencing problems with it, just send me an email at elvenprogrammer@gmail.com or continue reading. All the libs have DevPaks that are very easy drop-ins for Dev-C++, without any complex actions on your side. Get the following list of DevPaks: - SDL (http://devpaks.org/show.php?devpak=57) - SDL_mixer (http://devpaks.org/show.php?devpak=26) - SDL_image (http://devpaks.org/show.php?devpak=25) - Guichan (http://guichan.darkbits.org/downloads/guichan-0.2.0.DevPak) - libxml2 ** (ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/) Install them all through the Dev-C++ package manager. For SDL_image you may still need to manually get the SDL_image.lib file from the SDL_image homepage (devel VC6 zip file) and copy it to your Dev-Cpp/lib directory. **) For libxml2, download the following files (these or newer versions): libxml2-2.6.17.win32.zip iconv-1.9.1.win32.zip zlib-1.2.1.win32.zip From each file, copy the headers to your include directory, the libs to the lib direcotry and the dlls (in bin direcotry) to your tmw directory. You should now be fully equipped for compiling the latest TMW CVS code! 4. Compiling The Mana World =========================== Check out The Mana World from CVS using either the command line cvs tool or TortoiseCVS, pick what you like to use most and install that. Next, check out the tmw module from our repository. For anonymous users, the CVSROOT is: :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/themanaworld Open "The Mana World.dev" in Dev-C++. From there on you should be able to start compilition with Excute -> Compile. A file called tmw.exe should appear in the same directory as where you opened the .dev from. Before you can actually run the executable be sure to copy over the following DLLs from your Dev-Cpp/dll directory to the directory containing tmw.exe: SDL.dll SDL_image.dll SDL_mixer.dll guichan.dll guichan_sdl.dll jpeg.dll libpng1.dll zlib1.dll And also make sure you have: libxml2.dll iconv.dll Have fun hacking The Mana World!