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1. COMPILE WITH MINGW HOW TO
2. COMPILE WITH MINGW ARCHIVE
3. COMPILE WITH MINGW CODE
4. COMPILE WITH MINGW WINDOWS

COMPILE WITH MINGW CODE

Save this Makefile code to a file named "Makefile" (case sensitive with no file extension) or you can use the one I premade here. Thanks to macros we can very easily change the macros to add more files and libraries as we Notice how there's a -lįinally at the bottom we have our target compiling using all of our macros. Here we're compiling against 32bit mingw, SDL2, and SDL2main. "LINKER_FLAGS" macro specifies which libraries we're linking against. In this case we're disabling all warnings and disabling the console window. The "COMPILER_FLAGS" macro are the additional options we use when compiling. Notice how there's a -I before every include directory The "LIBRARY_PATHS" sets the additional library file paths. As you can see, we're using the include directoryįrom the SDL2 folder we extacted earlier. Next we have the "INCLUDE_PATHS" macro which specifies the additional directories we're getting header files from. Near the top we have the macros that define the files we're compiling and the compiler we're using. Now our compilation command is much more flexible. We should probably use more macros to make the process of adding them easier. In future tutorials, we will be using more libraries. Macros that we insert into the command which makes things like adding new files to the project must easier since you only have to change the macro as opposed to changing The command to create the target must begin with aĪs you would expect, the command to compile the program is largely the same as the command we would compile it off the command line. Obviously you need the source files to compile the program.Īfter specifying the name of the target and its dependencies, the command to create the target is on the next line. It's followed by the dependencies which as you can see is the OBJS macro, because Then we set the "OBJ_NAME" macro that specifiesĪfter setting these two macros, we have the "all" target which compiles the program. At the top we declare and set the "OBJS" macro which specifies which files we're compiling.

Menu either by A) right clicking My Computer and selecting Properties or B) going to the Control Panel and selecting the system menu. In a directory I created C:\mingw_dev_lib 2)Next you're going to want to get up the path for mingw so you can run mingw commands in any directory. I recommend putting it in a folder that you dedicate to holding all your development libraries for MinGW. Inside of i686-w64-mingw32 are the include, lib, and bin folders which contain everything we need compile and run SDL applications. It doesn't matter if you have a 64bit operating system, since we are compiling 32bit binaries we will be using the 32bit library.

We will be using the 32bit binaries for this tutorial set. This is important: most compilers still compile 32bit binaries by default to maximize compatibility. That folder there should be a bunch of folders and files, most importantly i686-w64-mingw32 which contains the 32bit library and x86_64-w64-mingw32 whichĬontains the 64bit library.

COMPILE WITH MINGW ARCHIVE

Open up the tar archive and the should be a folder called SDL2-2. If thats what I need to learn then perhaps point me in the right direction.Open the gzip archive and there should be a tar archive.

COMPILE WITH MINGW HOW TO

Perhaps I lack knowledge on how to correctly create executables and package their files with installers.

COMPILE WITH MINGW WINDOWS

While not only is this a hassle for actual development(don't say move to Linux, read the pre-face) but It prevents my code from having any sort of portability to other windows systems. Otherwise I get an error that I am missing a dll. It seems I have to set up Paths to compile outside of the C:\MinGW\bin folder, but even then I am forced to execute the program in that very same folder. I am having a hard time finding good answers on to how best go setting it up, and all the minutia involved in compiling code, and how it becomes dependent on MinGW's dll files. Question: Basically I am learning C++ with Notepad++ and looked into MinGW to be my compiler. I much prefer Ubuntu with vim and g++ but I want to have In addition to that a good Windows based work environment set up. Preface: I have been really turned away from writing and learning C/C++ in Visual Studios and Windows with the way things are compiled and worked with.