Build Quassel on Windows Mingw¶

Software Requirements¶

• QT SDK
• DBGHELP SDK
• CMake

Installation¶

Step 1:Install QT SDK¶

Download and install the QT SDK and select mingw to install with QT.

Step 2:Install DBGHELP SDK¶

Download and install DBGHELP.

Step 3:Generate the dbghelp.dll.a for mingw¶

• Open a command line
• add your mingw installation to PATH (set PATH=%PATH%;mingwdir)
• move to 'dbghelp'\sdk\lib\i386
• type "reimp -d dbghelp.lib"
• type "dlltool -k -d dbghelp.def -l dbghelp.dll.a"

Step 4: Install CMake¶

Checkout Quassel Mingw branch¶

• "git clone git://gitorious.org/quassel/quassel.git"
• "git remote add -f al git://gitorious.org/~ald/quassel/alds-quassel.git"
• "git checkout al/mingw"

Compile Quassel¶

• open a command line
• add mingw to your path (set PATH=%PATH%;'mingwdir')
• add cmake to your path (analog to mingw)
• add 'dbghelp'\sdk\lib\i386 to your path
• add 'dbghelp'\sdk\inc\i386 to tour path
• switch to the directory where you checked out Quassel
• type "mkdir build"
• type "cd build"
• type "cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" .."
• type "mingw32-make"