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h1. Build Quassel on Windows

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h2. Software Requirements

* Windows

* "Visual C++ 2005 Express":http://www.microsoft.com/germany/express/legacy/default.aspx

* "Visual C++ 2008 Redistributables":http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=de&FamilyID=9b2da534-3e03-4391-8a4d-074b9f2bc1bf

* "Platform SDK":http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0baf2b35-c656-4969-ace8-e4c0c0716adb

* "OpenSSL":http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html

* "msysgit":http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list (>= 1.6.0.2)

* "CMake":http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html

* "Qt for Open Source C++ development on Windows":http://trolltech.com/downloads/opensource/appdev/windows-cpp *(not MinGW)*

h2. Installation

h3. Step 1: Visual C++ 2005 Express

h3. Step 2: Visual C++ 2008 Redistributables. 

These will be needed for OpenSSL.

h3. Step 3: Platform SDK

h3. Step 4: OpenSSL

The first error message can be ignored as the Redistributables were installed.

Now you have to copy the "C:\OpenSSL\lib\VC\ssleay32MT.lib" file to "C:\OpenSSL\lib\VC\ssleay32.lib". 

Do the same with "C:\OpenSSL\lib\VC\static\ssleay32MT.lib" to "C:\OpenSSL\lib\VC\static\ssleay32.lib". 

Now open the "C:\OpenSSL\include\openssl\ossl_typ.h" file with an editor and comment out line 178.

h3. Step 5: Git

h3. Step 6: CMake

h3. Step 7: Fix the environment variables

Go to the system settings (Start => Control Panel => System), go to the "Advanced" tab and click on Environment Variables.

First you'll have to edit the "Path" variable. Append the following to the current value:

<pre>C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\Bin;C:\Program Files\Git\bin;C:\OpenSSL\bin</pre>

Next, create the following new system variables:

* LIB: 

<pre>C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\Lib;C:\OpenSSL\lib\VC\static;C:\OpenSSL\lib</pre>

* INCLUDE:

<pre>C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\Include;C:\OpenSSL\include</pre>

* QMAKESPEC:

<pre>win32-msvc2005</pre>

h3. Step 8: Qt

Create a directory (e.g. C:\dev\) and unpack Qt.

Now open the Visual Studio 2005 command line.

And cd to the directory containing Qt. Now you can configure the Qt installation with the following command:

<pre>configure -platform win32-msvc2005 -static -release -qt-sql-sqlite -no-qt3support -qt-zlib -qt-gif -qt-libpng -qt-libmng -qt-libtiff -qt-libjpeg -openssl-linked -prefix C:\dev\qt-win-opensource-src-4.4.3 -confirm-license</pre>

Then you can compiled Qt with these commands:

<pre>

nmake sub-winmain

nmake sub-moc

nmake sub-rcc

nmake sub-uic

nmake sub-corelib

nmake sub-xml

nmake sub-network

nmake sub-gui

nmake sub-sql

nmake sub-script

nmake sub-testlib

nmake sub-opengl

nmake sub-xmlpatterns

nmake sub-phonon

nmake sub-svg

nmake sub-webkit

nmake sub-plugins

nmake sub-tools

nmake sub-tools-qdoc3

</pre>

You can close the prompt after this.

h3. Step 9: Update the environment variables

After installing Qt, you will have to append the following:

* Path

<pre>;C:\dev\qt-win-opensource-src-4.4.3\bin</pre>

* LIB: 

<pre>;C:\dev\qt-win-opensource-src-4.4.3\lib</pre>

* INCLUDE:

<pre>;C:\dev\qt-win-opensource-src-4.4.3\include</pre>

h3. Step 10: Quassel

Open a new Visual Studio 2005 command line and go to the "C:\dev" directory again. Use git to download the Quassel source code.

<pre>git clone git://git.quassel-irc.org/quassel.git</pre>

This will create a new directory "quassel" containing the source. When you want to update Quassel later, you just have to go to this directory (C:\dev\quassel) and do a "git pull" to update the source code.

Next, create a new directory in "C:\dev" in which Quassel will be built. In our case, we will simply call it "build". Change to this directory and enter the following command to configure Quassel:

<pre>cmake -G"NMake Makefiles" C:\dev\quassel -DSTATIC=1 -DWANT_CORE=ON -DWANT_QTCLIENT=ON -DWANT_MONO=ON</pre>

And after that:

<pre>nmake</pre>

This will build Quasselcore, Quasselclient and Quasselmonolithic which can be found in the "C:\dev\build" directory.

h2. Related links

* "German tutorial by Datafreak":http://www.datafreak.eu/2008/11/build-qt-and-quassel-under-windows/