Build Quassel on Windows Mingw » History » Version 23
Version 22 (TheOneRing, 04/23/2010 05:00 PM) → Version 23/47 (avih, 07/05/2012 05:39 PM)
h1. Build Quassel on Windows Mingw
h2. Build Quassel with QT only
h2. Software Requirements
* "QT SDK":http://qt.nokia.com/downloads
* "DBGHELP Mingw":http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6292727/dbghelp/dbghelp.zip
* "CMake":http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
h2. Installation
h3. Step 1: Install QT SDK
Download and install the QT SDK and select mingw to install with QT.
h3. Step 2: Install DBGHELP Mingw
If you are using mingw w64 skip this step
Download "DBGHELP Mingw":http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6292727/dbghelp/dbghelp.zip and extract it to your mingw root. Alternatively, get "libdbghelp.7z":http://download.gna.org/warzone/development/libdbghelp.7z and extract libdbghelp.a to <mingw>/lib, and get dbghelp.h from "here":http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1660497&group_id=2435&atid=352435 and put it at <mingw>/include, however, I CANNOT VOUCH FOR THESE FILES, I just "fished" them from warzone2010 dev files and mingw's bug tracker, but they did work for me (-avih). root
h3. Step 3: Install CMake
h2. Checkout Quassel
* "git clone git://gitorious.org/quassel/quassel.git"
h2. Compile Quassel
* open a command line
* add mingw to your path (set PATH=%PATH%;'mingwdir')
* add cmake to your path (analog to mingw)
* add QT to yo your path, 'qt\version'\qt\bin
* switch to the directory where you checked out Quassel
* type "mkdir build"
* type "cd build"
* type "cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" .."
* type "mingw32-make"
h2. Build Quassel with Windows KDE
# got to the "Emerge Tutorial":http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/emerge
# check out emerge and set up the kdesettings.bat acording to the kde tutorial
# install quassel "emerge quassel-qt" or "emerge quassel" to build quassel with kdesupport, emerge will install all dependency's for you
# when emerge has finished all jobs, start quassel
The steps above would also be possible with msvc2008
h3. Notes after follow this guide with mingw which comes with QTSDK (1.2.1)
# Cmake can be downloaded "here":http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html . I got the windows binary zip file, extracted it, and added the path of the 'bin' dir within it.
# The mingw bin dir is <QTSDK-dir>\mingw\bin, the QT path is <QTSDK-dir>\Desktop\Qt\4.81\mingw\bin .
# The official 0.8 tarball failed to build after 80% with the following error:
mingw32-make[2]: --- No rule to make target `po/qt_cs.qm', needed by `po/CMakeFiles/po'. Stop.
mingw32-make[1]: --- [po/CMakeFiles/po.dir/all] Error 2
mingw32-make: --- [all] Error 2
# The cloned git maser (2012-07-05) failed at cmake due to unsupported QT_DBUS. I manually deleted 'DBus' from the quassel client CmakeList.txt file (quassel/src/client/CmakeList.txt) here:
if(NOT WITH_QT5)
setup_qt_variables(Gui Network *DBus*)
# After successfully compiling the cloned git master, I needed the following DLLs at the same dir as the exe: *QtCore4.dll QtGui4.dll QtNetwork4.dll QtWebKit4.dll libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll mingwm10.dll phonon4.dll*. These files can be copied from the mingw and the QT dirs, or from the win32 official quassel distribution package "here":http://quassel-irc.org/downloads (7-zip can extract the windows installer, these files are in there).
h2. Build Quassel with QT only
h2. Software Requirements
* "QT SDK":http://qt.nokia.com/downloads
* "DBGHELP Mingw":http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6292727/dbghelp/dbghelp.zip
* "CMake":http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
h2. Installation
h3. Step 1: Install QT SDK
Download and install the QT SDK and select mingw to install with QT.
h3. Step 2: Install DBGHELP Mingw
If you are using mingw w64 skip this step
Download "DBGHELP Mingw":http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6292727/dbghelp/dbghelp.zip and extract it to your mingw root. Alternatively, get "libdbghelp.7z":http://download.gna.org/warzone/development/libdbghelp.7z and extract libdbghelp.a to <mingw>/lib, and get dbghelp.h from "here":http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1660497&group_id=2435&atid=352435 and put it at <mingw>/include, however, I CANNOT VOUCH FOR THESE FILES, I just "fished" them from warzone2010 dev files and mingw's bug tracker, but they did work for me (-avih). root
h3. Step 3: Install CMake
h2. Checkout Quassel
* "git clone git://gitorious.org/quassel/quassel.git"
h2. Compile Quassel
* open a command line
* add mingw to your path (set PATH=%PATH%;'mingwdir')
* add cmake to your path (analog to mingw)
* add QT to yo your path, 'qt\version'\qt\bin
* switch to the directory where you checked out Quassel
* type "mkdir build"
* type "cd build"
* type "cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" .."
* type "mingw32-make"
h2. Build Quassel with Windows KDE
# got to the "Emerge Tutorial":http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/emerge
# check out emerge and set up the kdesettings.bat acording to the kde tutorial
# install quassel "emerge quassel-qt" or "emerge quassel" to build quassel with kdesupport, emerge will install all dependency's for you
# when emerge has finished all jobs, start quassel
The steps above would also be possible with msvc2008
h3. Notes after follow this guide with mingw which comes with QTSDK (1.2.1)
# Cmake can be downloaded "here":http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html . I got the windows binary zip file, extracted it, and added the path of the 'bin' dir within it.
# The mingw bin dir is <QTSDK-dir>\mingw\bin, the QT path is <QTSDK-dir>\Desktop\Qt\4.81\mingw\bin .
# The official 0.8 tarball failed to build after 80% with the following error:
mingw32-make[2]: --- No rule to make target `po/qt_cs.qm', needed by `po/CMakeFiles/po'. Stop.
mingw32-make[1]: --- [po/CMakeFiles/po.dir/all] Error 2
mingw32-make: --- [all] Error 2
# The cloned git maser (2012-07-05) failed at cmake due to unsupported QT_DBUS. I manually deleted 'DBus' from the quassel client CmakeList.txt file (quassel/src/client/CmakeList.txt) here:
if(NOT WITH_QT5)
setup_qt_variables(Gui Network *DBus*)
# After successfully compiling the cloned git master, I needed the following DLLs at the same dir as the exe: *QtCore4.dll QtGui4.dll QtNetwork4.dll QtWebKit4.dll libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll mingwm10.dll phonon4.dll*. These files can be copied from the mingw and the QT dirs, or from the win32 official quassel distribution package "here":http://quassel-irc.org/downloads (7-zip can extract the windows installer, these files are in there).