Dependencies Windows

Background

• The mingw-w64 cross-compiler is required for building a Windows binary, even on Windows.
• Cross-compiled dependencies are available via Ubuntu PPA, or may be compiled manually or using a helper script
• Steps are provided for Ubuntu Linux and Windows OS

Contents

• Cross-compiling on Ubuntu
  • Setup Ubuntu PPA Mirrors
  • Setup 32-bit Dependencies
  • Setup 64-bit Dependencies
  • Setup Qt4 (Optional)
• Compiling on Windows OS
  • Setup Shell
  • Setup Basic Build Environment
  • Setup Remaining Dependencies
  • Setup Additional Workarounds

Ubuntu Cross Compile

Configure a mingw-w64 cross-compilation environment for building Windows binaries in Ubuntu.

Setup PPA

# For Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise"
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tobydox/mingw-x-precise

# For Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty"
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tobydox/mingw-x-trusty

32-bit

Using Qt5 (lmms>=1.2.0)

sudo apt-get install mingw32-x-sdl mingw32-x-libvorbis \
mingw32-x-fluidsynth mingw32-x-stk mingw32-x-glib2 mingw32-x-portaudio \
mingw32-x-libsndfile mingw32-x-fftw mingw32-x-flac mingw32-x-fltk \
mingw32-x-libgig mingw32-x-libsamplerate mingw32-x-pkgconfig \
mingw32-x-binutils mingw32-x-gcc mingw32-x-runtime mingw32-x-qt5base

64-bit

Using Qt5 (lmms>=1.2.0)

sudo apt-get install mingw64-x-sdl mingw64-x-libvorbis \
mingw64-x-fluidsynth mingw64-x-stk mingw64-x-glib2 mingw64-x-portaudio \
mingw64-x-libsndfile mingw64-x-fftw mingw64-x-flac mingw64-x-fltk \
mingw64-x-libgig mingw64-x-libsamplerate mingw64-x-pkgconfig \
mingw64-x-binutils mingw64-x-gcc mingw64-x-runtime mingw64-x-libsoundio \
mingw64-x-qt5base

Qt4

If Qt4 is required (lmms<=1.1.0)

sudo apt-get install mingw32-x-qt mingw64-x-qt

    ...done installing? Next, clone the source code

Windows OS

Configure a mingw-w64 environment in Windows using msys2 from Start Menu

Setup Shell

Setup a unix-like shell environment using msys2

# From msys2 desktop application, fetch all available packages
pacman -Sy

# Update essential utilities
pacman --needed -S bash pacman pacman-mirrors msys2-runtime

# Restart msys2 (mandatory)

Setup Basic Build Environment

Using msys2 from Start Menu

# Fetch list of outdated packages
pacman -Su

# "Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded" is normal, just try again

# Download and install the 32-bit and 64-bit toolchains (about 85MB)
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-i686-gcc

# Download and install dependencies (about 726MB, 3.3GB installed)
pacman -S git pkgconfig make cmake wget p7zip gzip tar binutils mingw-w64-x86_64-qt4 mingw-w64-i686-qt4 gdb

Setup Remaining Dependencies

Using Mingw-w64 from Start Menu

# Download msys_helper.sh helper script
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lmms/lmms/master/cmake/msys/msys_helper.sh --no-check-certificate

# Run the helper script. This will automatically:
# - Download/extract/install the Ubuntu mingw ppa (400MB)
# - Download/compile any conflicting libraries
# - Configure git for use with msys
./msys_helper.sh

# "cp: cannot create regular file" is normal, please ignore

# There will be warnings during library compilations, please ignore

Setup Additional Workarounds

From cmd.exe, as Administrator

# Create symlinks, moc.exe work-around
# - Adjust paths if msys2 was installed in non-standard location
mklink /d %SystemDrive%\mingw64 %SystemDrive%\msys64\mingw64
mklink /d %SystemDrive%\mingw32 %SystemDrive%\msys64\mingw32
mklink /d %SystemDrive%\home %SystemDrive%\msys64\home

    ...done installing? Next, clone the source code

Troubleshooting

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