| Building GNU Go on Windows Platforms |
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| BUILDING WITH OLDER VISUAL STUDIO |
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| The distribution directories contain some .dsp and .dsw files with |
| GNU Go. These have been brought up to date in the sense that they |
| should work if you have the older VC++ with Visual Studio 6 |
| but the distributed .dsp and .dsw files will only be of use with |
| older version of Visual Studio. |
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| In most cases (unless you are building in Cygwin) the preferred way |
| to build GNU Go on Windows platforms is to use CMake. CMake |
| understands about many versions of Visual C/Visual Studio, and will |
| generate project/solution files for the tools installed on your |
| system. So even if you have Visual Studio 6 you may use CMake |
| and dispense with the distributed .dsp and .dsw files. |
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| BUILDING WITH VISUAL STUDIO PROJECT FILES |
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| Before you compile the GNU Go source, you need to run CMake first, to |
| generate the build files you'll give to Visual Studio. |
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| From the cmd.exe command prompt, CD into the GNU Go source directory. |
| To confirm you're in the right place, you should see the file |
| 'CMakeLists.txt' in the top-level directory of the GNU Go code (as well |
| as others in lower subdirectories). |
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| Direct CMake to generate the new Visual Studio build files by typing: |
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| cmake CMakeLists.txt |
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| Compile the code by invoking the newly-created Solution file: |
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| vcbuild GNUGo.sln |
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| This will take a few moments, as CMake generates 4 debug/retail targets: |
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| debug |
| release |
| minsizerel |
| relwithdebinfo |
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| For each of these targets, Visual Studio is generating a version of |
| gnugo.exe: |
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| interface\debug\gnugo.exe |
| interface\release\gnugo.exe |
| interface\minsizerel\gnugo.exe |
| interface\relwithdebinfo\gnugo.exe |
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| Additionally, there is an 'Install' target available, that will copy the |
| the gnugo.exe into the %ProgramFiles% directory. To do this, type: |
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| vcbuild INSTALL.vcproj |
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| This should result in copying GNU/Go into: |
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| "%ProgramFiles%\GNUGo\bin\gnugo.exe" --options |
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| In addition to command line use, CMake also has a GUI version. Users of |
| the Visual Studio GUI might prefer to use that. |
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| BUILDING WITH NMAKE MAKEFILES |
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| GNU Go will also build using NMake makefiles. Optionally, instead of |
| Visual Studio project/solution files, you may direct CMake to generate |
| NMake makefiles. To generate the makefiles: |
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| cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" CMakeLists.txt |
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| The default rule for the makefile is 'all'. Use the 'help' rule to show |
| a list of available targets. |
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| nmake -f Makefile help |
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| To compile GNU Go: |
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| nmake -f Makefile all |
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| On some systems, GNU GO may fail to build when using NMake makefiles. It |
| only fails the first time run, run NMake again with the 'clean all' |
| targets, and it will compile the second and subsequent times. |
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| nmake -f Makefile clean all |
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| Which will successfully generate a gnugo.exe. |
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| interface\gnugo.exe --options |
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| BUILDING WITH MINGW MAKEFILES: |
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| GNU Go can be built on Windows systems using MinGW. |
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| This development environment uses: the GCC compiler (gcc.exe, not |
| cl.exe), the Microsoft C runtime libraries (MSCRT, not GLibC), the GNU |
| Make build tool (mingw32-make.exe, not NMake), all from the Windows |
| shell (cmd.exe, not sh/bash). |
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| For CMake to work, in addition to the base MinGW installation, the C++ |
| compiler (g++.exe) and GNU Make (mingw32-make.exe) need to be installed. |
| This was tested using GCC v3, not the experimental v4. To debug, use |
| GDB, as the GCC-generated symbols won't work with NTSD/Windbg/Visual Studio. |
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| To create the makfiles, run CMake with the MinGW generator option: |
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| cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" CMakeLists.txt |
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| To build GNU Go, from a cmd.exe shell, run GNU Make (against the |
| newly-created 'Makefile' and it's default 'all' target): |
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| mingw32-make |
| ..\interface\gnugo.exe --options |
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| BUILDING WITH MSYS MAKEFILES (MinGW) |
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| GNU Go can be built on Windows systems using MSYS. |
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| This development environment uses: the GCC compiler (gcc.exe, not |
| cl.exe), the Microsoft C runtime libraries (MSCRT, not GLibC), the GNU |
| Make build tool (make, not NMake), all from the GNU Bash (sh.exe, not |
| cmd.exe). |
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| To create the makfiles, run CMake with the MSYS generator option: |
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| cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" CMakeLists.txt |
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| Start MSYS's Bash shell, either clicking on a shortcut on from the |
| command line: |
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| cd /d c:\msys\1.0 |
| msys.bat |
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| To build GNU Go, from a Bash shell, run GNU Make (against the |
| newly-created 'Makefile' and it's default 'all' target): |
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| make |
| ../interface/gnugo.exe --options |
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| To debug, use GDB, as the GCC-generated symbols won't work with |
| NTSD/Windbg/Visual Studio. |
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| BUILDING ON CYGWIN |
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| With Cygwin, you should be able to |
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| tar zxvf gnugo-3.8.tar.gz |
| cd gnugo-3.8 |
| env CC='gcc -mno-cygwin' ./configure |
| make |
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| Testing on Windows: |
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| Regress.cmd is a simplified cmd.exe-centric port of the main gnugo Unix |
| shell script regress.sh. It can be used to help verify that the |
| generated binary might be operational. Read the script's comment header |
| for more information. For access to the full GNU Go tests, use Unix, not |
| Windows. |
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| To test: |
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| cd regression |
| regress.cmd ..\interface\gnugo.exe |
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