Developer Getting Started: MinGW

Prerequisites

• Git client (GitHub for Windows)
• CMake
• MinGW
• SDL development libraries: SDL2, SDL2_image, SDL2_mixer

Clone repo: GitHub for Windows

Instructions for TortoiseGit are also available; these are not recommended

Repo URL: https://github.com/cxong/cdogs-sdl.git

1. Optional: for the purposes of this walkthrough, the clone location is C:\cdogs-sdl. To make GitHub for Windows automatically clone to this location, set the default storage directory to C:\.

   

2. Click the "Clone in Windows" button in the repo website.

   

3. You should now see the repo contents in C:\cdogs-sdl

   

Install SDL development libraries

1. From the contents of the SDL-2.0.XX package, copy the contents of bin to C:\MinGW\bin, include into C:\MinGW\include, and lib into C:\MinGW\lib (so you should have the files C:\MinGW\bin\sdl-config, C:\MinGW\include\SDL\SDL.h, C:\MinGW\lib\libSDL.dll.a etc.)

   

2. Do the same for SDL_mixer and SDL_image, combining the contents of the include and lib folders. However, you should also copy the DLLs e.g. SDL_mixer.dll to C:\MinGW for CMake's benefit.

   

3. Copy the .dll files to the C:\cdogs-sdl\src folder

   

4. Create an environment variable SDLDIR that points to C:\MinGW

   

Run CMake

1. Simply run C:\cdogs-sdl\make.bat

   

2. If the last step didn't work, open CMake Windows and select File > Delete Cache, and start this section over.

   

3. Run c:\cdogs-sdl\src\cdogs-sdl.exe. You are ready to go!