Build mQ3 with MinGW under Windows¶

Contents

• Build mQ3 with MinGW under Windows
  • Install MinGW and MSYS
  • Install SDL library
  • Install Git

Install MinGW and MSYS¶

Download mingw-get-inst installer from MinGW official website (as the time of this writing, the latest version is mingw-get-inst-20101030).

Launch the installer and keep the pre-package catalogs:

Keep the default installation directory:

Check the additional options (MSYS and MinGW devkit):

Install SDL library¶

Download the SDL development library archive for Windows and MinGW from SDL official website (as the time of this writing, the latest version is SDL-devel-1.2.14-mingw32).

Unpack the downloaded archive to a temporary directory:

Use the Windows Explorer to do the following operations:

• Copy from the unpacked archive the file bin\SDL.dll to your Windows System32 directory
• Copy from the unpacked archive the files include\SDL\*.h to the MinGW C:\MinGW\include directory
• Copy from the unpacked archive the files lib\*.o to the MinGW C:\MinGW\lib directory
• Copy from the unpacked archive the files lib\*.a to the MinGW C:\MinGW\lib directory

Install Git¶

Download the Git version control system installer for Windows from Git official website (as the moment of this writing, the latest version is Git-1.7.3.1-preview20101002).

Launch the installer and choose the following path environment option:

Choose the included SSH executable (it is not necessary to work with repositories on QW-DEV):

Keep the default EOL conversion option: