openmw-tes3coop/COMPILE-win32.txt

OpenMW - the completely unofficial reimplementation of Morrowind
================================================================

OpenMW is an open source reimplementation of the Morrowind game
engine. For more information, see README.txt or

    http://openmw.snaptoad.com/




Building from source
====================


Supported Windows platforms:
----------------------------

Only tested on Windows XP. If you manage to compile or run OpenMW on
another Windows platform (9x/Me/NT/2000/Vista), please let me know!

At the moment, only command line building is supported.



Dependencies:
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To compile OpenMW you need Mingw with g++ (a C++ compiler) and gdc
(the D compiler.) You can find them here:

Mingw     http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/
gdc       http://sourceforge.net/projects/gdcwin/

Note that the "official" D compiler, DMD, will not currently work on
Windows, because it is uses an object format incompatible with most
C++ compilers.

All library dependencies are included in the file
openmw-dll-pack.zip. Simply download this file and unpack it in the
same directory as the OpenMW source code. You should not need to
download any other dependencies.



Setting everything up
---------------------

First, install Mingw (get the automatic installer.) Make sure gcc and
g++ packages are selected.

Next install the gdcwin installer (the package named 'gdc') and
install it in the same directory as Mingw.

Open a command line. Set up your PATH to include Mingw and gdc
(eg. "set PATH=%PATH%;c:\mingw\bin").

Next you must make sure the D include files are found by the
compiler. Run the following command:
set DFLAGS=-Ic:\mingw\include\d\3.4.5\
where the path following -I is the path of your Mingw GDC include
directory.

Make sure the commands g++ and gdc work (should output "no input
files".)



Manually installing dependencies:
---------------------------------

If you download the DLL pack mentioned above, you can skip this
section. If you wish to install dependencies manually though, here is
a list of dependencies and where you can find them:

OGRE:     http://ogre3d.org
OIS:      Comes with the Ogre SDK
OpenAL:   http://openal.org/
FFmpeg:   http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/
Bullet:   (fill in here)

The biggest problem is the lack of a prebuilt SDKs for FFmpeg and
Bullet. You must build these yourself.

FFmpeg must build it under Mingw (not Cygwin!). I found the following
link helpful (read the comments as well, not just the post itself):
http://www.gooli.org/blog/building-ffmpeg-for-windows-with-msys-and-mingw/

Bullet: (not written yet)



Building
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To build, simply run build_openmw.bat



Running
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For instructions on how to set everything up after compilation, see
README-win32.txt.

Good luck!