Talk:Compiling Mudlet

MSYS2

• Install MSYS2: https://www.msys2.org

• At the end of installation uncheck run msys2 now and click finish

• Run MSYS2 MINGW64 from the start menu

• Run the following in the opened MSYS2 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

• Run the following from the MSYS2 terminal:

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

• Setup the development environment (~5-10min) by running:

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

Take note of the message at the end to add the variables to your environment once you have opened the project in Qt Creator. (WITH_MAIN_BUILD_SYSTEM, MINGW_BASE_DIR, LUA_PATH, LUA_CPATH)

Note: This might not work on windows arm64, pacman freezes.

• Open Qt Creator. You will need to open it via MSYS2 every time:

/mingw64/bin/qtcreator.exe

• Press link with Qt on the bottom right of Qt Creator

• Choose C:/msys64/mingw64 as the location then restart Qt Creator

• Open project; C:/msys64/home/<user>/Mudlet/src/mudlet.pro

• In Build Environment details, set environment variables to what was stated in the sdk-setup script above.

• In General - Build directory, disable Shadow build

• Build Mudlet (Ctrl+B)
• Run Mudlet (Ctrl+R)