Windows with MingW

MinGW

Download the MinGW package: ​Download

• Usually MinGW is installed to c:\mingw

MSYS

Download the MSYS Installer from sourceforge: ​Download
MSYS (Minimal SYStem) is a software port of the Unix-Shell to Windows. It's used by MinGW-Developers as a minimal system which can, for example, execute configure-scripts.

1. Install MSYS into another path than MinGW
2. During the installation process answer yes (y) twice
3. Specify the path of the MinGW directory (most probably this will be c:/mingw).

Switch to the home-directory of your MSYS installation: C:\<msys-install-path>\home\<username>\
This is your homedirectory in MSYS, this is where the action takes place.

SVN

To use SVN? on your system we recommend TortoiseSVN, a very useful GUI-version. ​Download

TortoiseSVN is a shell extension. You can use it within Windows Explorer. Most options are available through the context menu (right mouse button).

Get the source

Check out the Orxonox-repository from https://svn.orxonox.net/orxonox/trunk/ into a folder named 'trunk', for example c:\<msys-homedir>\trunk\

• URL: https://svn.orxonox.net/orxonox/trunk/
• Checkout directory: c:\<msys-homedir>\trunk\

In TortoiseSVN this is done by right clicking into c:\<msys-homedir>\ and chosing "SVN checkout…". Then set the URL of the repository to https://svn.orxonox.net/orxonox/trunk/ and the checkout directory to c:\<msys-homedir>\trunk\ Checkout depth should be "Fully recursive" and revision "HEAD". Accept the certificate and enter your username and password in the authentication form.

If you're not using TortoiseSVN, use the "svn co repository directory" command. See SVN? for more information.

Now do the same with the same with the media repository:

• URL: https://svn.orxonox.net/data/Media
• Checkout directory: c:\<msys-homedir>\media

Now you should have the following directories in your home:

c:\<msys-homedir>\media
c:\<msys-homedir>\trunk

Dependencies

Download the Orxonox dependencies. ​Download
Extract the archive into c:\<msys-homedir>\

Now you should have the following directories in your home:

c:\<msys-homedir>\libs
c:\<msys-homedir>\media
c:\<msys-homedir>\trunk

DirectX

You will need to have DirectX 9 installed, but that should not be a problem anyway. OGRE is using the DirectX SDK version, but the required libraries are already supplied by us.

CMake

Now we can build Orxonox. To do so, we need CMake. CMake is a cross-platform system for build automation. Download the latest binary release from ​here and install it.

• While installing check the option to add CMake to the system PATH

Open the MSYS console, change into your trunk folder and create a binary output directory:

cd trunk
mkdir build
cd build

Then create a shortcut to save some typing:

echo "cmake .. -G \"MSYS Makefiles\"" > cm

This script will invoke CMake and create the Makefiles.

Building Orxonox

Type into the MSYS console:

./cm (the file we created just before)
make

If you have two CPU cores, append "-j3" to "make".

Compiling will take some time (CMake shows you the percentage).

If everything worked fine, start Orxonox with c:\<msys-homedir>\trunk\run.bat