BuildingWindows
Building Guides
This page is one of a set of Building pages/guides for the different OSes with information on building Mumble/Murmur.
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Contents
Commandline instructions
Whenever something appears
like this
you're supposed to enter it in that command shell (or copy it from this webpage and right click in the command window and select Paste).
Note that each line is a separate command. So, if you wanted to do the following,
cd mumble nmake
you would type "cd mumble" in your command prompt, and press enter, and then you would type "nmake", and press enter.
Ok. So you're ready to start working.
Build using MSVC on Windows
Introduction
Mumble has quite a few dependencies for building on Windows, and as the feature set grows, so does the list of dependencies. Therefore we have built some automated scripts to create a sane build environment for Mumble. To make this build environment as similar as possible across all of Mumble's supported Platforms, the Windows build is strongly dependent on Cygwin.
The mumble-releng Github repository has an up-to-date README on how to create the build environment!
The most up-to-date information on how to create a Mumble build environment are always to be found in this README file!
Software you will need
Install everything to it's default locations except explicitly stated otherwise!
- Visual C++ Build Tools 2015: Contains MSVC 2015, the compiler we are currently using for the releases. During the installation you can deselect the Windows SDKs, because we are going to install the up-to-date one, listed below.
- Windows SDK: Contains the updated development resources, including the headers. If you are on Windows 7, don't select "Windows Performance Toolkit", because it isn't compatible.
- Git: You can use any version of Git, it only has to be in your PATH variable. (If you insist you can also use a Git version from Cygwin but it still has to be in your PATH).
Creating the build environment
First you need to clone the mumble-releng repository into a directory in which your Windows user has write access cd into this directory, then
git clone https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble-releng.git mumble-releng
afterwards you have to open your Windows Explorer and navigate to buildenv\1.3.x\win32-static\cygwin-deps and put your cygwin installer .exe file in this directory. The installer should be named setup-x86_64.exe if you have Cygwin x64 or setup-x86.exe if you have Cygwin x86.
Then run install-cygwin-deps.cmd inside this folder to fetch the required cygwin packets.
Back in the terminal window, change to the directory the scripts for Windows (32-bit) and static build reside in.
cd mumble-releng/buildenv/1.3.x/win32-static
and execute
setup.cmd
This should install a Mumble build environment in your %USERPROFILE% directory named MumbleBuild inside of it should be a directory named like win32-static-1.3.x-2015-05-25-1234ab7.
If everything went right Windows Explorer should open up the directory named above.
Build Mumble's dependencies
To start building Mumble's dependencies, double-click the "MumbleBuild - cygwin" shortcut. This will open a cygwin terminal inside it type:
cd mumble-releng/buildenv/1.3.x/win32-static
to change directory to the build environment's local clone of the mumble-releng repository.
To make the .bash files inside this directory executable do
chmod +x *.bash
and then start the dependency fetch&compile operation with
./build-all.bash
This operation will take a long time (like you can eat something in between long), depending on your hardware and internet connection.
Once all dependencies are built, you will be returned to your Cygwin shell.
You can double check that everything has been built by inspecting the build environment's root directory. You should see a lot of folders containing installed/built products for all of the Mumble dependencies.
Building Mumble
To build Mumble itself using your newly-built build environment, you should use the "MumbleBuild - cmd" shortcut to launch a Windows command prompt.
Next, make a checkout of the Mumble source tree and enter the root of the source tree with
git clone --recursive https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble.git mumble cd mumble
to generate Makefiles for use with the build environment, run
qmake -recursive main.pro CONFIG+="release static no-elevation no-g15 no-asio" CONFIG-=sse2
This build environment does not install the libraries and headers needed to build Mumble with G15 LCD or ASIO audio support. If you want to build Mumble with one of them you need to install them to the build environment on your own. In this case remove no-g15 or rather no-asio accordingly.
After all this preparation start the actual Mumble compilation with
nmake
You should end up with a mumble.exe and a murmur.exe binary (and a whole collection of .DLL files to go along with the two) in the "release" directory in the root of the Mumble source tree.
If you want to distribute your own mumble.exe you can either create an installer (see below) or collect mumble.exe and the needed .DLL files yourself.
(Optional) Visual Leak Detector
VLD is no longer a default requirement for a Mumble build environment. You only have to install it if you want to use it in which case you have to manually enable it with CONFIG+=vld.
Download VLD and install it to its default install location.
If you're using Visual C++ Express Edition, you will need to manually extract the files using a tool like 7-zip . Extract it to C:\dev\ and adjust the VLD_PATH to point to it.
VLD is only enabled for debug builds. If you only compile Release builds you do not need it.
(Optional) Custom Dependency Paths
The build files were modified to support custom dependency paths a while ago. This is for the people who have the dependencies installed in some other place than the autogenerated directory structure. To specify the custom paths you need to create a winpaths_custom.pri file to the root of your Mumble project. In this file you can override all paths found in winpaths_default.pri. For example:
OPENSSL_PATH = C:\\dev\MyOpenSSLIsSomewhereElse ICE_PATH = C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ZeroC\\Ice-3.4.1
Would make the build process search its OpenSSL and Ice dependencies in the specified folders and use defaults for everything else. Note that you should only override the variables for dependencies you actually installed in non-default locations to prevent clashes with possible future updates.
Note: If you copied winpaths_default.pri to create your winpaths_custom.pri make sure to delete the following lines from your winpaths_custom.pri file:
# Include custom file if it exists
exists(winpaths_custom.pri) {
include(winpaths_custom.pri)
}
(Optional) Build a Mumble installer package
If you want to create an installable .msi package from your self-compiled Mumble some additional steps are needed.
Download and install the latest WIX stable Version (currently 3.8) from here.
Set the following environment variables as needed (see defaults in installer/Settings.wxi):
MumbleSourceDir default: \dev\mumble MumbleQtDir default: \dev\QtMumble MumbleDebugToolsDir default: C:\Program Files (x86)\Debugging Tools for Windows (x86) MumbleSndFileDir default: \Program Files (x86)\Mega-Nerd\libsndfile\bin Define MumbleNoSndFile to exclude libsndfile MumbleMySQLDir default: \dev\MySQL Define MumbleNoMySQL to exclude MySQL MumbleIceDir default: \Program Files (x86)\ZeroC\Ice-3.4.2\bin\vc100 Define MumbleNoIce to exclude Ice MumbleOpenSslDir default: \dev\openssl MumbleZlibDir default: \dev\zlib MumbleMergeModuleDir default: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Merge Modules Define MumbleSSE to include SSE Define MumbleNoSSE2 to exclude SSE2 Define MumbleNoG15 to exclude G15
Open installer/MumbleInstall.sln, switch to release and build the installer.
Once this completed successfully run the build_installer.pl script to include all translations into your installer.
You should now have a working .msi installer.
Build using MXE on Debian and derivates
Introduction
It is possible to cross-compile Mumble using a MinGW toolchain. If you're more comfortable with a Unix-like system, you will probably prefer this method. The easiest way to cross-compile Mumble is by using MXE, which provides all the required dependencies.
Features currently not available with MinGW:
- Overlay
- Logitech G15 LCD
- ZeroC Ice
- Bonjour
In the guide there are some commands with ${ARCH} in them. You need to replace it with the desired architecture, which can be x86-64 (64 bit) or i686 (32 bit).
Installing the required MXE packages
Add MXE's repository to your system's sources
echo "deb http://pkg.mxe.cc/repos/apt/debian jessie main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mxeapt.list apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys D43A795B73B16ABE9643FE1AFD8FFF16DB45C6AB apt-get update
Install the required packages
apt-get install \
mxe-${ARCH}-w64-mingw32.static-qtbase \
mxe-${ARCH}-w64-mingw32.static-qtsvg \
mxe-${ARCH}-w64-mingw32.static-qttools \
mxe-${ARCH}-w64-mingw32.static-qttranslations \
mxe-${ARCH}-w64-mingw32.static-boost \
mxe-${ARCH}-w64-mingw32.static-protobuf \
mxe-${ARCH}-w64-mingw32.static-sqlite \
mxe-${ARCH}-w64-mingw32.static-flac \
mxe-${ARCH}-w64-mingw32.static-ogg \
mxe-${ARCH}-w64-mingw32.static-vorbis \
mxe-${ARCH}-w64-mingw32.static-libsndfile
Preparing the environment
Clone Mumble's Git repository
git clone https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble.git cd mumble
Get the ASIO SDK
wget http://www.steinberg.net/sdk_downloads/asiosdk2.3.zip -P /tmp/ unzip /tmp/asiosdk2.3.zip -d /tmp/ mv /tmp/ASIOSDK2.3 3rdparty/asio
Export environment variable to tell QMake where MXE's protobuf compiler is
export MUMBLE_PROTOC=/usr/lib/mxe/usr/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/protoc
Add MXE's directory to PATH
PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/mxe/usr/bin
Build
Run QMake to process the project(s) files
${ARCH}-w64-mingw32.static-qmake-qt5 -recursive CONFIG+="release g15-emulator no-overlay no-bonjour no-elevation no-ice"
Start the build
make
