Compiling zdoom

Necromage · Post by **Necromage** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:10 pm

I am running win98 (its not my computer so its not going to change so don't tell me to get xp) and I have visual c++ 6. Thats all nice and well except that it can't compile zdoom and I can't run visual c++ 2005 on windows 98. I have nasm, fmod api and directx as specified on the wiki. Now, I know that gcc can compile zdoom, however, I have no clue how I would go about and do that so I am asking if anyone can tell me what I need to do?

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:13 pm

As has been stated neumerous times, VC 6 will not compile ZDoom. It has a crap C++ compiler that doesn't understand the complicated stuff ZDoom does.

Use MinGW instead. There is a tutorial on the wiki. You pretty much unzip the source, cd into the directory and run "make".

Necromage · Post by **Necromage** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:06 pm

I am well aware that VC 6 can't compile zdoom and I clearly said that above. I have looked at the wiki and the only help it can give for compiling on windows is to get VC 2005, which, I can't do as well. As above I asked if someone can help me out with gcc (witch, I guess that entails MinGW by default). The wiki does have linux instructions that do use gcc but I don't have linux and even if those instructions do work in windows I have no clue what they mean anyway, they just look like some cyrptic messages, much like how c++ used to look before I started to figure things out (and it still does to a certian degree but thats besides).

Siggi · Post by **Siggi** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:21 pm

The wiki does lack instructions on how to compile ZDoom under Windows using MinGW.
Perhaps someone who's managed it should add it in.

For the moment I think a forum search would be the best thing to do. I'm sure someone has asked about compiling using MinGW before.

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:16 am

Like I said:

Install MinGW
download the ZD source and unzip it into a folder
open a command line and cd to that folder
type "make" and press enter
When it's done, type "zdoom" and press enter

Kaiser · Post by **Kaiser** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:40 pm

Everyone fails at being helpful.

1. Install Visual C++ 2005 Express
2. Install Nasm then configure the executable paths in tools->options->directories in VC 2005
3. Install Fmod SDK (forgot which one, I think its 1.7 something) do the same for nasm except you point to the include/library directories
4. Open vcproj in Vc 2005
5. Compile the other stuff before zdoom
6. Compile zdoom
7. ???
8. Profit

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:44 pm

You fail at being helpful. He said Visual C++ 2005 Express won't work because he's on Windows 98.

Kaiser · Post by **Kaiser** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:45 pm

I fail at reading

Siggi · Post by **Siggi** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:56 pm

Haha, this thread is getting funny.

Hirogen2 · Post by **Hirogen2** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:30 am

Cygwin.

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:33 am

No, don't use Cygwin. It will produce an executable that requires a Cygwin environment with all of the required libs and other dependencies for Linux, including an X Server.

Use MinGW.

Hirogen2 · Post by **Hirogen2** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:51 am

Jim wrote:No, don't use Cygwin. It will produce an executable that requires a Cygwin environment with all of the required libs and other dependencies for Linux, including an X Server.

And SDL, I know. In which case (if possible), you don't need the Windows SDK

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:20 pm

And what you get is a piece of crap.

Post by **randi** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:36 pm

Building the Windows version of ZDoom with SDL is unsupported, because SDL isn't all that well-supported under Windows.

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:38 pm

Graf Zahl wrote:And what you get is a piece of crap.

Yes, in the sense of having an executable that requires a bunch of redundant Linux compatability layers bolted on top of Windows for no reason. However, using SDL across all platforms might not be such a bad idea when SDL 1.3 is released.