From 55898c07ff329ce80252ea7a6e916db3b2f012bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Lubomir I. Ivanov" Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 02:38:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL: remove the native win32 build notes Outdated and should not be maintained as there are many levels of complications. The NOT RECOMMENDED note should suffice. Signed-off-by: Lubomir I. Ivanov Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel --- INSTALL | 71 ++------------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 108b0bd3b..3cf459036 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -339,72 +339,5 @@ Building Subsurface on Windows ------------------------------ This is NOT RECOMMENDED. To the best of our knowledge there is one single -person who regularly does this (and he provided these instructions). The -Subsurface team does not provide support for Windows binary build from -sources... - -1) Install msys-git: -http://msysgit.github.io - -Tools part of MSYS are required for building Subsurface, while you also -need Git to be upstream and contribute to the project. -Make sure that the msys/bin (or git/bin) folder is in PATH. - -2) Install Qt -http://qt-project.org/downloads - -Subsurface is currently built against Qt 4.8.5. - -3) Install a MinGW toolchain -https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4D8x6CJEmtuczdiQklwMEs4RUU - -Qt 4.8.5 comes without a compiler and you will have to download it from -a separate location. Other compiler may work, but there are no guaranties for -that. Make sure that the mingw/bin folder is in PATH. - -4) Install Libdivecomputer -Use similar steps to the previous section, without the sudo command. - -5) Install CMake (required for building Marble): -http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html - -Make sure that the cmake/bin folder is in PATH. - -5) Download and build Marble -http://marble.kde.org/sources.php -http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Marble/WindowsCompiling#Compiling_Marble_using_MingW - -Make sure you build both the Debug and Release versions. - -6) Install pkg-config -http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config_0.26-1_win32.zip - -pkg-config depends on DLL files such as libglib-2.0-0.dll and has to be in -PATH, so it's best that you copy the executable to msys/bin. - -7) Install other dependencies -Subsurface also depends on the following libraries: - -* libxml2 -http://www.xmlsoft.org/downloads.html -* libxslt -http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/ -* libusb-1.0 -http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/libusb-win32/wiki -* zlib -http://www.zlib.net/ -* libzip -http://www.nih.at/libzip/ - -Once you have the libraries, create .pc files (pkg-config) for them and place -the files in a folder that is indicated by the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment -variable - e.g. PKG_CONFIG_PATH=c:\msys\pkg-config - -To build subsurface, use: - -$ git clone git://subsurface-divelog.org/subsurface.git -$ cd subsurface -$ qmake -$ make -$ make install -$ make installer +person who regularly does this. The Subsurface team does not provide support +for Windows binary build from sources...