User:Amki/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
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 Studio 2013 OR Visual Studio 2013 the version with C++ compiler is called "for Windows" at this time but Microsoft might rename it. The important thing is to have the VS 12.0 C++ compiler.
- Cygwin, either 64-bit or 32-bit. This is only used to fetch and build dependencies, Mumble itself will not depend on Cygwin. You can accept the default settings of the installer.
- Windows SDK at the time of writing this, the latest version is the "Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4".
- DirectX SDK (June 2010) Mumble currently expects to use the free-form DirectX SDK, and not the one distributed with the Windows 8 SDK.
If you get error S1023 during DirectX installation you must uninstall all versions of the Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable before installing the June 2010 DirectX SDK. See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2728613
- 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)
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.
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 like setup-x86[_64].exe.
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.
Visual Leak Detector (optional)
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.
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 C:\dev 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 = /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) }
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 compiling.
Start a new command shell (run cmd.exe)
cd \dev prep
After you run prep make sure a message similar to "Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 x86 tools" appears.
If you set up a shortcut like described in the section above you can open it and it will run prep automatically.
When you later want to compile a dependency or program, always remember to call prep.bat first to set paths correctly.
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.