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## How to build Widelands with !MinGW64 on wWindows ¶

This is currently a work in progress! ¶

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# Download files ¶
## Nuwen's !MinGW64 distro ¶

Download the main distro from
[http://nuwen.net/mingw.html](http://nuwen.net/mingw.html) and the MSYS package: ¶

*
[mingw-12.1.exe](http://nuwen.net/files/mingw/mingw-12.1.exe )
*
[msys-10.4.7z](http://nuwen.net/files/mingw/msys-10.4.7z)

## SDL2 source packages ¶
* [SDL2](https://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-2.0.3.zip) ¶
* [SDL2_net](https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_net/) ¶
* [SDL2_mixer](http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/) ¶
* [SDL2_image](https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/) ¶
* [SDL2_gfx](http://cms.ferzkopp.net/index.php/software/13-sdl-gfx) ¶

## Additional libraries ¶
* [libvorbis](http://xiph.org/vorbis/) ¶
* [libogg](http://xiph.org/ogg/) ¶
* [libiconv](ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.14.tar.gz) ¶
* [gettext](ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.19.3.tar.gz) ¶
* [freetype](http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-doc-2.5.3.tar.gz) ¶

# Building all libraries ¶

* Use the self-extracting installer of Nuwen's and extract the distro to
*C:\\MinGW*
* Extract MSYS manually to
*c:\\msys-10.4*
* Open the distro window with
*C:\\MinGW\\open_distro_window.bat*
* Change the directory with "cd c:\
\msys-10.4" and call *extract.bat*
* Start MSYS with
*msys.bat*

You are now in a linux like shell, so the command syntax is a bit different than normal windows commands ¶

* Extract all source packages to
*c:\\msys-10.4\\home\\<username>\\*
* Build each package with "./configure --prefix=/c/mingw && make install" ¶

# Download CMake and Ninja ¶

* Download
[Ninja ](https://github.com/martine/ninja/releases/download/v1.5.1/ninja-win.zip). Extract simply to *C:\\mingw\\bin*. ¶
* Download
[CMAKE ](http://www.cmake.org/files/v3.1/cmake-3.1.0-rc2-win32-x86.zip)

# Getting Widelands source code ¶

# Building Widelands ¶

We will build ninja in the normal distro window and not in the MSYS shell: ¶

* Switch to the directory you'll want to build widelands in, e.g.
*C:\\wl_build*
* run CMAKE "cmake -G Ninja -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:\
\Mingw c:\\bzr\\widelands\\trunk" ¶
* Just call "ninja" to build now