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    How to compile gideros from sources?

    papirosnikpapirosnik Member
    edited August 2016 in General questions
    Hi guys.
    It would be nice for us to have a nowadays' guide for compiling Gideros Studio and platform-specific libs.
    At least on Windows.
    I tried to do this a year or two ago. And even got GiderosStidio.exe, but it didn't work (crash on start).
    Is there any step-by-step tutorial or something similiar for the current github release (2016.8)?
    I saw this thread (http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/5776/edit-the-sources-of-gideros-studio/p1) but it looks a bit outdated.
    Which version of Qt is currently used?
    What's about 64bit?
    Should we edit some hardcoded pathes or all is automated via MakeFile?
    Shed light on these questions, please.
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    • john26john26 Maintainer
      edited August 2016
      These days we build Gideros on a Mac which uses Wine to also build the Windows version. However, the WinRT version needs to be build on a Windows 10 computer so we do that separately and copy files across. The script on Mac then builds Windows and Mac desktop versions, iOS and Android versions and packages everything into gideros.exe and gideros.dmg.

      However, if you just want to build the Windows version, WinRT and Android (not iOS and OSX), follow these instructions (you will need a Windows 10 computer):

      Clone the gideros source

      git clone https://github.com/gideros/gideros.git

      Install the latest Visual Studio (2015) with WinRT components. (I actually am still using Visual Studio 2013 for Windows but latest should be fine)

      Install Qt 5.6 (select the gcc version). Install it at c:\Qt

      Download Qscintilla: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyqt/files/QScintilla2/QScintilla-2.8.4/QScintilla-gpl-2.8.4.zip

      Open the Qt command prompt and run
      cd Qt4Qt5
qmake qscintilla.pro
mingw32-make
mingw32-make install
      Install the following Java/Android stuff

      Java JDK (both version 6 and 7 are working fine)
      Apache Ant - http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
      Android SDK version 21 (get the SDK for an existing IDE) - http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
      Android NDK - https://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html

      Install mingw from https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/. Install at the default location, c:\mingw

      Now, in the Qt command prompt, cd to "scripts" and run
      call buildqtlibs.bat
call buildplugins.bat
call cleanqt.bat
call buildqt.bat
      this will build the Windows desktop version (but if you run GiderosStudio.exe it will crash, wait till you've copied files -- see below)

      Now run the following to build Android
      call makejar.bat
call buildandroidlibs.bat
call buildandroidso.bat
call buildandroidplugins.bat
      (note, the last three batch files assume you have Android NDK r11b installed. If you have another version you will have to edit the batch files and replace references to android-ndk-r11b)

      Open the Visual Studio command prompt and run
      buildwinrt.bat
      Now run
      mycopyall.bat
      This should copy the Gideros release to \gideros_gideros\release (assuming you cloned Gideros to \gideros_gideros\gideros). Check the stuff is there!

      Finally, to build win32 version, go to gideros/win32_example and run
      depends.bat
compile.bat
copyall.bat
copywin32.bat
      You should then have a working Gideros on Windows which can export Windows desktop, win32, WinRT and Android. But it cannot export iOS or OSX.

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    • john26john26 Maintainer
      edited August 2016
      Note: see here for a step-by-step guide to installing the Android SDK etc

      http://docs.giderosmobile.com/deployment.html

      (see "installing OS-specific SDKs" tab)

      You should install Android 21.

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    • papirosnikpapirosnik Member
      @john26,
      awesome explanation! Thank you.
      Will try this a bit later.
      However, I have a mac too... and since the main job should be performed there, could you also politely provide us instructions on how to compile all stuff on a Mac.
      We'll be immensely grateful! )

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    • john26john26 Maintainer
      OK I will try to put something together this evening (it will be useful to remind myself!)

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    • SinisterSoftSinisterSoft Maintainer
      I want this too.

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    • papirosnikpapirosnik Member
      We can hardly wait :)
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    • XmanXman Member
      edited August 2016
      @john26, What the mac os version do you used for build?
      in the El Capitan 10.11, the /usr/lib is not writable, do we have to disabled rootless?

      And where to download the qt5.6.0 tar package for windows?

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    • john26john26 Maintainer
      I also use El Capitan. You have to disable rootless as shown here
      http://www.imore.com/el-capitan-system-integrity-protection-helps-keep-malware-away
      http://giderosmobile.com
      https://github.com/gideros/gideros
      https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnBlackburn1975
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    • XmanXman Member
      Do you think it would be better to provide all other files that are not available on the github somewhere to download?
      Such as files in external and dependencies directory.
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    • john26john26 Maintainer
      The dependencies directory contains Windows versions of NSIS, Qt and QScintilla. @ar2rsawseen provided these. The external directory contains the winrt, win32 and html5 versions which you need to build yourself (see above for winrt).
      http://giderosmobile.com
      https://github.com/gideros/gideros
      https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnBlackburn1975
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    • keszeghkeszegh Member
      edited March 2017
      @john26, i try to build gideros on win10, it partially works but not completely.
      is your explanation still valid?
      i'm curious about Qscintilla, i build it fine, but for what reason? i wonder how can the gideros building process find it? should i put it in some specific directory?

      i want to build the (g)media plugin primarily, i can even compile the dll but it is not working, when i overwrite the gmedia.dll in the gideros install folder with my one then it won't work, even if i don't alter the source code.

      also there are zillion options what to download for qt5.6, e.g. there are many options like
      mingw49_32\
      msvc2013_64\
      msvc2015_64\
      winrt_x64_msvc2015\
      winrt_x86_msvc2015\
      which one is needed? which one's path should i add to env variables? (i added mingw49_32)

      thanks in advance for any further explanations, would be great to be able to build gideros, that would allow to theoretically be able to make minor contributions.
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    • keszeghkeszegh Member
      i would appreciate help with compiling gideros.
      in general, having a working tutorial about how to do that would be essential for an open-source project and could help to gain more contributors (and users) to gideros (like me).

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    • hgy29hgy29 Maintainer
      Hi @keszegh, go for mingw tooling in QT, other toolchains aren't needed.
      Qscintilla lib is installed along QT files when 'make install' is invoked on QScintilla project, so gideros can find it here.

      One of my employees wrote a compiling guide, and I posted it on the forum a few month ago. It is (still) in French but I'll repost it here just in case someone finds it useful.
      docx
      docx
      Giderose_TUTO_FR001.docx
      57K

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    • keszeghkeszegh Member
      thanks, @hgy29, i will give your french tutorial a try.
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      Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game
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    • papirosnikpapirosnik Member
      @hgy29 , I find that french tutorial useful for me too
      in general, any tutorial would be greatly appreciated )
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