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Compiling Mana on Windows using CMake

• Get the Mana sources either from git or download the latest release. We'll assume they are at C:\mana
• Get the mana_libs.zip package
• Extract mana_libs.zip somewhere (current version creates a tmw_libs directory). For this howto we'll assume C:\tmw_libs
• Install CMake. Be sure to tell it to add itself to the system PATH during the installation (unless you know wat you're doing), either for current or all users.
• Install MinGW. Take the latest Automated MinGW Installer and be sure to check C++ from the MinGW Compiler Suite. Install location is assumed to be C:\MinGW.\
• Add the MinGW bin directory C:\MinGW\bin to your PATH (My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables -> Edit PATH -> Append ;C:\MinGW\bin, including the semicolon unless the variable didn't exist yet).

Now that was the whole installation procedure. Now let's start on the actual compiling.

• Open a command prompt (Start -> Run -> cmd)
• Verify that cmake and g++ are available (otherwise something went wrong in the install procedure above, and it makes no sense to continue without fixing that)
• Go to C:\mana (type c: and then cd \mana)
• Generate Makefiles with CMake by doing:

cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=C:\tmw_libs\include -DCMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=C:\tmw_libs\lib -DSDL_INCLUDE_DIR=C:\tmw_libs\include\SDL -DSDLIMAGE_INCLUDE_DIR=C:\tmw_libs\include\SDL -DSDLMIXER_INCLUDE_DIR=C:\tmw_libs\include\SDL -DSDLNET_INCLUDE_DIR=C:\tmw_libs\include\SDL -DSDLTTF_INCLUDE_DIR=C:\tmw_libs\include\SDL -DMINGW_INCLUDE_DIR=C:\MinGW\include

(Yes, this command is insane, we should look into shortening that up a bit...)

• Check that it went alright (it should say "-- Build files have been written to: C:/mana" at the end)
• Start compiling by typing mingw32-make