Compiling ZSNES with MinGW - For Beginners

AspiringSquire · Post by **AspiringSquire** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 12:58 am

Nach wrote:
AspiringSquire wrote: * how NASM and MinGW relate/interact/whatever
They don't.

If they have no correlating purpose, then why does NASM need to be placed in a MinGW directory, hmm?

Post by **Nach** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 1:06 am

AspiringSquire wrote:
Nach wrote:
AspiringSquire wrote: * how NASM and MinGW relate/interact/whatever
They don't.
If they have no correlating purpose, then why does NASM need to be placed in a MinGW directory, hmm?

It doesn't have to be placed there, it does't matter where you place it as long as the makefile can find it. Meaning place it in any directory in your path.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:44 am

Syvalion wrote:
Noxious Ninja wrote:Nope.
My bad. I thought this was it.

That might work. I don't know if anybody's tried it or not. In any case, it wasn't around in 2000.

AspiringSquire wrote:
Nach wrote:
AspiringSquire wrote: * how NASM and MinGW relate/interact/whatever
They don't.
If they have no correlating purpose, then why does NASM need to be placed in a MinGW directory, hmm?

What Nach said. I just wrote to put it in the MinGW directory so you only have to add one item to your path.

You could stick it in C:\WINDOWS for all I care.

Dead · Post by **Dead** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 3:33 am

Noxious Ninja wrote:That might work. I don't know if anybody's tried it or not. In any case, it wasn't around in 2000.

That link came from a reliable source.

Cool, eh? Too bad it wasn't a free download in 2000.

washuu108 · Post by **washuu108** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 3:03 am

AspiringSquire, what did you do to fix this?

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windres --define GCC_WINDRES -o zlibrc.o win32/zlib1.rc
windres: win32/zlib1.rc:9: syntax error
mingw32-make: *** [zlibrc.o] Error 1

Edit: Nevermind, apparantly I missed twice that you fixed it by using zlib 1.2.1...

(Go ahead and delete, if anyone with the ability so chooses)

Edit2: Now undefined IID_IDirectSoundBuffer8, IID_IDirectInput8A, and IID_IDirectDraw7? Can't figure this one out...

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:15 am

washuu108 wrote:AspiringSquire, what did you do to fix this?
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windres --define GCC_WINDRES -o zlibrc.o win32/zlib1.rc
windres: win32/zlib1.rc:9: syntax error
mingw32-make: *** [zlibrc.o] Error 1
Edit: Nevermind, apparantly I missed twice that you fixed it by using zlib 1.2.1... (Go ahead and delete, if anyone with the ability so chooses)

Edit2: Now undefined IID_IDirectSoundBuffer8, IID_IDirectInput8A, and IID_IDirectDraw7? Can't figure this one out...

Make sure you got the Allegro Minimal DirectX SDK and copied the headers as per the instructions.

washuu108 · Post by **washuu108** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:24 am

All the DX8 headers are in MinGW's include directory...

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:40 am

Try copying the items in the libs folder. Do not overwrite any files that already exist. I may have missed this step.

washuu108 · Post by **washuu108** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:48 am

Tried that before posting earlier, didn't help anything...

AspiringSquire · Post by **AspiringSquire** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:52 am

Could someone please "stickify" this thread? I'm sure there are many users who would benefit from the data that is in here, and if they still need help, they can ask for it in here also.

By the way, washuu108, I have no idea what's causing the problem you were having. The only thing I can suggest is to try starting from scratch; uninstall and delete everything you downloaded for the purpose of compiling ZSNES, and just be sure to read the directions carefully and follow them explicitly—though there are cases where something may need to be done slightly differently... just use your best judgment.

Hopefully you can get it working or at least discover what the problem is.

Bahamut_ZERO_Clue · Post by **Bahamut_ZERO_Clue** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 3:21 am

Wow... I never thought you guys would get it to work but you did. Works great too. BTW the compiling your own zlib and libpng is actually a bit better IMO.

Nightcrawler · Post by **Nightcrawler** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:22 pm

DIP switch wrote:
Noxious Ninja wrote:Nope.
My bad. I thought this was it.

Absolutely. You can download the command line visual C++ compiler that comes with Visual C++/Studio .NET 2003 free of charge. Of course that's ONLY the command line compiler. Bare bones.. nothing else.

Of course.. I'd also like to point out that MS is giving away Visual C++ Express 2005 Beta edition free of charge as well. It's working pretty good despite being beta status and is probably worth the download for anyone who doesn't already have Visual C++ in some form. If you do download this, make sure you download the Platform SDK as well since the beta version doesn't come with it like the retail versions. Other than that, I think it's complete.

ieremiou · Post by **ieremiou** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 7:53 pm

Personally I prefer MinGW with its UNIX-like shell component named MSYS (use the snapshot at the bottom of the MinGW page). I wish they would officially release a new verison though it really needs it.

MSYS makes much of everything so much easier though.

Since then everything is basically Unixed oriented but building a Windows program. Very nice. I do this to build DOSBox all the time. I prefer using libpng-1.2.8-config.tar.gz and the zlib-1.2.2.tar.gz and the nasm 98.39.tar.gz.

Build zlib, libpng, nasm and then ZSNES in that order and you're good to go.

/Ieremiou

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