Compiling Megatunix for Win32

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Re: Compiling Megatunix for Win32

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red_five wrote:Hi David,

Firstly, many thanks for creating Megatunix.

Please could you post a short guide on how to compile the application for Win32? There are some mods that I would like to trial, but I'm no Unix guru and it doesn't seem obvious how you compile the Win32 variant.

I'm using the Bloodshed Dev C++ V4.0 IDE to edit the source.

Thanks
Simon
I know of no way to build it under windows personally as I am NOT a windows developer nor have the budget to get the rather pricey windows tools. I use the mingw32 crosscompiler under linux (ubuntu 7.04 linux) and the libs from the win32 ports of the needed prereq libs to link against, and use inno-setup running under wine to make the self extracting EXE.

Setting up the crossdev environment under linux was rather easy however.

If you have ideas/fixes, please pass them along to me as I'll be happy to implement them if they offer suitable value to megatunix.
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Where to get and how to install:
http://msextra.com/viewtopic.php?t=23080
http://sourceforge.net/projects/megatunix
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Post by djandruczyk »

red_five wrote:Ah, that would make sense.

The changes I'm making are a bit personal for me, so wouldn't benefit Megatunix users as a whole. But thanks for offering to compile them for me.

So I have two choices, install unbuntu Linux on my PC and develop my UNIX skills a bit more, or blaze a trail and get Megatunix to compile under Windows.

The Bloodshed compiler is free, so I suppose that I have nothing to lose by trying the Windows route and it may help others in the future.

Thanks again,
Simon
I strongly suggest the ubuntu route, as I can give you a list of things I did to get it to build cleanly. If you have the RAM do it in a virtual machine, like Virtualbox (free), or Vmware-server (also free).

What are your ideas you are working on anyways? (please abide by the license that megatunix is bound to (GPL V2))
David J. Andruczyk
MegaTunix author. The only non-java cross platform tuning software for MS-I/II hardware.
Where to get and how to install:
http://msextra.com/viewtopic.php?t=23080
http://sourceforge.net/projects/megatunix
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Re: Compiling Megatunix for Win32

Post by Cuz »

Hi Dan,

Following up on this thread, are you able to supply a guide to compiling for win32? I've got MinGW here ready to go........
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