Dev:Mingw installation

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Updated Mingw

Welcome to the updated mingw page! As the information is checked to be fully functional we will post it to this page. As that is verified the old information shown here will be deleted since you are not what so ever to get it working using the below information since the developers of mingw have discontinued and removed that version and setup of that way completely. For now refer to this page: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started First - download MinGW installer. You may get version mingw-get-inst-20101030.exe or higher but with the current setup of mingw this is best way to install it.

Run mingw-get-inst-20101030.exe(or what version you get). When the installer asks which packages to install, select (see Note 2):

  • MinGW base tools
  • g++ Compiler
  • g77 Compiler
  • MinGW Make
  • MSYS(both you will still have to go back and install later but this will be explained when the time comes)

Note 1: you really do need to install Fortran; even though Synfig does not require it, it is required by the autoconf configuration scripts. These are the minimal required package versions which are needed to successfully build win32 synfig (version numbers from the 5.1.3 package):

  • mingw-runtime-3.12.tar.gz (429.7 Kb)
  • w32api-3.9.tar.gz (1.6 Mb)
  • binutils-2.17.50-20060824-1.tar.gz (8.9 Mb)
  • gcc-core-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz (3.3 Mb)
  • gcc-g++-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz (4.5 Mb)
  • gcc-g77-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz (2.0 Mb)
  • mingw32-make-3.81-2.tar.gz (95 Kb)

Note 2: mingw-get-inst-20110316.exe provides the following options to choose:

  • MinGW Compiler Suit
    • C Compiler (selected always)
    • C++ Compiler (select it)
    • Fortran Compiler (select it)
  • MSYS Basic System (select it)
  • MinGW Developer Toolkit (select it)


Confirm default installation path C:\MinGW. If you install MinGW into another directory, synfig compilation may fail.


MSYS

This is installed when you install mingw if you selected, if you feel so necessary to install it open a mingw shell and run mingw-get install msys-base but this command might just be unnecessary

png2ico

Early version of Synfig used pngtoico tool to produce icons from png files. Unfortunately this tool is broken now. You can see this for youeself by installing the official build of Synfig Studio 0.61.05. The latest versions of Synfig using another tool: png2ico. This tool is not perfect, but it works.

  1. Download it from: http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/data/png2ico-win-2002-12-08.zip (89.9 Kb)
  2. And decompress png2ico.exe file to C:\msys\1.0\bin directory.

Non MinGW packages

Git

Synfig source is now stored in a git repository. You will need the git client to get it. Also, git is needed by the build scripts to receive the revision number of the source. You can download the Windows git version from this page:

Get always the latest version available: http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/Git-1.7.4-preview20110204.exe

After download and install (I recommend to install to custom folder C:\Git) you must add C:\Git\bin to the PATH. See here to know how to do that. http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started (Environment Variables).

Subversion

Synfig source is stored in a subversion repository. You will need the svn client to get it. Also the svn client is required by the Synfig build scripts, to receive the revision number of the source. You can download the Windows subversion package from this page:

When I wrote this the latest version was 1.4.3:

But it is best to get the newest available version.

NSIS

NSIS is the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, a free and open source installer for WinAmp, a popular windows music player. When I wrote this the latest version was 2.27:

You can use this or any newer version.

ImageMagick

When I wrote this the latest version was 6.3.4-10:

Note: The updated file has not been tested yet -- try here instead http://www.imagemagick.org/download/www/binary-releases.html#windows

ImageMagick is required to build Studio, also Core has an ImageMagick render target.

Gtk+/Gtkmm

GTK+

Go to this page and download the latest GTK+ devel package for windows:

^^ These links are broken :( Pixelgeek is researching alternate solutions

Though it's not yet tested, you can try either:

You need only install the following components:

  • Gtk+ Runtime (required)
  • Register Environment Variables
  • Devel header/libraries

Confirm registration for environment: MSYS (C:\mingw\msys\1.0).

Install GTK+ to C:\GTK.

GTKmm

maybe this is useful to read too: http://live.gnome.org/gtkmm/MSWindows

Go to this page and download the latest GTKmm devel package for Windows:

If you opted for gtk-dev-2.12.9-win32-2.exe or gtk-dev-2.12.9-win32-1.exe pick this instead.

You need only install the following components (footnote 1):

  • libsigc++
  • cairomm
  • glibmm
  • gtkmm
  • libxml++
(1) if you're using gtkmm-win32-devel-2.16.0-4.exe, then pangomm is a required component.

For each selected component you may keep only

  • Runtime
  • Development

subcategories. Install GTKmm to C:\GTK.

Collision Resolution

If you have several Gtk-applications (f.e. InkScape), you can receive a strange errors, like "the procedure entry point XML_SetDoctypeDeclHandler could not be located in the dynamic link library xmlparse.dll". Thats mean you have an old version of this library in windows system32 directory, installed by another program. Just search and rename/delete this old library and all will work perfectly again.

Troubleshooting

Test whether MSYS can find MinGW by running:

$ gcc --version

If it replies command not found, MSYS can't see MinGW. In that case, you will need to edit the text file C:\msys\1.0\etc\fstab so that it includes the line:

c:/MinGW /mingw

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