Packaging: Windows

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio developer setup
• MinGW developer setup
• NSIS

Build cdogs-sdl executable

1. Follow the MinGW developer setup instructions to build cdogs-sdl.exe.

   

Package installer

1. Follow the [Run CMake section of the Visual Studio developer setup](wiki/Developer Getting Started: Visual Studio#run-cmake) to create Visual Studio projects. Beware the difference in CMake output directories.

2. Open the Visual Studio solution and build the PACKAGE project, using the Release configuration.

   

3. Copy cdogs-sdl.exe built using MinGW to /Release, overwriting the binaries there built by Visual Studio.

   

4. In Visual Studio, build the PACKAGE project again. This time the package will be built using the MinGW-compiled binaries. The installer will be in /C-Dogs SDL-VERSION-win32.exe. Make sure to test it in Windows XP and Windows Vista/7/8.