Talk:Compiling Mudlet

MSYS2

• install msys2: https://www.msys2.org
• uncheck run msys2 now, hit finish
• run MSYS2 MINGW64 from the start menu
• run in the opened terminal:

pacman --files --refresh
pacman --sync git mingw-w64-x86_64-qt-creator mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja mingw-w64-x86_64-clang-libs --noconfirm

• right-click and paste into msys:

git clone --recursive -b development https://github.com/Mudlet/Mudlet.git

• Afterwards run the following. This will take 5-10min:

./Mudlet/CI/setup-windows-sdk.sh 

Note: this might not work on windows arm64, pacman freezes

• Open Qt Creator:

/mingw64/bin/qtcreator.exe

• Alternatively, find and drag C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/qtcreator.exe (or another location if mingw64 is elsewhere) onto the msys2 window and press enter to launch
• press link with qt bottom right

• choose C:/msys64/mingw64 as the location. restart qt creator

• open new project C:/msys64/home/<user>/Mudlet/src/mudlet.pro

• in Build Environment details, set environment variables to this:

WITH_MAIN_BUILD_SYSTEM=NO
MINGW_BASE_DIR=C:\msys64\mingw64

• in General - Build directory, disable Shadow build

• build Mudlet (Ctrl+B)
• click Run

Mudlet will run, but it won't find any of the Lua DLL's so scripts within the profile won't work correctly. Working on finding a solution.