README-windows.md

Rime with Windows

Prerequisites

librime is tested to work on Windows with the following build tools and libraries:

• VS2013
• Boost>=1.56
• cmake>=2.8
• msysgit

You may need to update Boost when using a higher version of VS.

The following command line tools from msysgit are needed by build.bat to automate the build process:

• git, used by build.bat thirdparty to clone windows branch from lotem/leveldb
• sed, used by build.bat thirdparty to edit project files for static-linking C++ runtime (/MT)

You can also build third-party libraries manually without them, by following instructions in the build script.

Get the code

git clone git@github.com:lotem/librime.git

or download from github.

Setup a build environment

Copy env.bat from env.bat.template and edit the script according to your setup. Specifically, make sure BOOST_ROOT is set to the path where you extracted Boost source; modify *_INSTALL_PATH if you've installed build tools in a custom location.

When finished, run shell.bat to complete the following steps in a prepared command prompt.

Build Boost

build.bat boost

Build third-party libraries

build.bat thirdparty

This builds dependent libraries in thirdparty\src\*, and copies artifacts to thirdparty\lib and thirdparty\bin.

Build librime

build.bat

This creates build\lib\Release\rime.dll.

Try it in the console

copy /Y build\lib\Release\rime.dll build\bin
copy /Y thirdparty\bin\*.dll build\bin
cd build\bin
echo "congmingdeRime{space}shurufa" | Release\rime_api_console > output.txt