HowTo compile on Win32 with MinGW

Originally by Madcat

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This wiki page only supports the latest CVS version of aMule.

Requirements for compiling aMule

Note: Some of these require manually moving includes and libraries into their correct directories.

Windows port of GNU C compiler -> Download 4.1.1

Minimal GNU shell for Windows -> Download 1.0.10

Developer toolkit for MSys (for CVS & co) -> Download 1.0.1

LibIConv (required by gettext) -> Download 1.8

GetText (for po files, autogen.sh, etc) -> Download 0.11.5

zlib compression library -> Download 123

1. Install the supplied header files "zlib.h" and "zconf.h" into the INCLUDE directory of the MinGW directory. (copy *.h -> somepah/MinGW/include)

2. Copy the supplied library file "zdll.lib" as "libzdll.a" into the MinGW/lib folder (copy lib/zdll.lib -> lib/libzdll.a)

Windows port of wxWidgets library -> Download 2.6.1

Common guidelines, issues, solutions

When compiling wxWidgets, you should make use of the following configure flags: --disable-shared --without-checklistbox

Compile zlib with --prefix=/mingw or zlib detection in aMule will not work.

Link statically against zlib to avoid distributing extranous DLLs (and generally make life simpler).

Compilation

The compilation itself is actually just a matter of following the usual method: ./configure && make. Use your favorite flags on ./configure.

Compiling with MinGW Studio

NOTE: The compilation with MinGW Studio is deprecated right now and currently does not function. It might function again in the future.

As of 2004/07/17, you can find, in CVS, the file amule.msp which is the project file relative to the MinGW Studio IDE (Free and under GPL at http://www.parinya.ca/ and shipped with precompiled wxMSW).

Install MinGW Studio, add Zlib and Curl compiled libs in The MinGW Studio tree.

Then, open amule.msp with MinGW Studio, press F7, and aMule "should" be compiled :)

Yes, I know, "compile" is not the same as "work" ... But it is a great begining

Windows Installer

For those of you that don't want to compile aMule from source, there is also the option of the aMule Windows Installer.