Building

Building on Windows (MYS2 x86_64)

These steps are based off of the steps for building Allegro with MSYS2

Get MSYS2 x86_64

1. Install MSYS2 x86_64 from https://msys2.github.io/
2. Run MSYS2 in MinGW w64 mode

Install the build dependencies

1. CMake

   pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake
   

2. GCC

   pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
   

3. SDL2

   pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2
   pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2_image
   

4. pkg-config

   pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config
   

5. make (MSYS version)

   pacman -S msys/make
   

Perform the build

1. Run the build using MSYS Makefiles, specifying the mingw64 toolchain

   cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32 ..
   make
   

2. When you run the built executables Windows will complain about several missing DLL files. You search for these and place them next to the executable for the time being (not yet sure what the long term solution to this is).