Things you need
| MinGW and MSYS | You can find them at http://www.mingw.org/. Look for the Current MSYS and Current MinGW. Everything else can be ignored unless you know what you're doing. |
| libSDL for MinGW | You can find it at http://www.libsdl.org/. |
| The DirectX 7a headers and libraries for MinGW | You can find it at http://alleg.sourceforge.net/index.html |
| Zlib | You can find it at http://www.zlib.net/ |
| Windows API libraries | http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml |
| FCEU source | Which I think you should have since you want to compile it! ;) |
Things to do
- Install MinGW and MSYS.
- Simply run the EXEs and follow the directions. Install MSYS AFTER MinGW
- Install the DirectX 7 headers and libraries and Windows API libraries
- Simply unzip the archive to C:\MinGW. There will be an include folder and a lib folder. Do NOT extract to C:\MinGW\dx70_mgw. Or you can extract to some folder and copy the include and lib folder over the C:\MinGW directory. You should do the same thing with Windows API libraries.
- Install libSDL.
- Start MSYS and put SDL-devel-1.x.x.mingw.tar.gz in your home directory. The path will be something like c:\msys\1.0\home\|username|
- Untar the archive
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gzip -cd SDL-devel-1.x.x.mingw.tar.gz | tar x
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- Now build libSDL
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make install-sdl prefix=/mingw
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- Install Zlib
- Stay in MSYS, or reopen it if you closed it. Put the zlib-1.x.x.tar.gz archive in your MSYS home dir.
- Untar the archive
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tar xvfz zlib-1.x.x.tar.gzor for bz2tar xvfj zlib-1.x.x.tar.bz2
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- Now change to zlib directory
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cd zlib-1.x.x
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- Configure and build zlib
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./configure --prefix=/mingw make && make install
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- Compile fceu
- Stay in MSYS, or reopen it if you closed it. Extract fceu-0.98.12-blip.src.rar to c:\msys\1.0\home\|username| .
- Change to the fceu directory
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cd fceu-0.98.12-blip.src
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- Configure the Makefile
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./configure --with-nativewin32or for opengl./configure --with-nativewin32 --with-opengl
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- Build the resource file
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windres -o src/res.o src/drivers/win/res.res
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- Now make
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make
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- Strip the executable to make it small (this is optional)
- Staying in MSYS, run the strip program.
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strip -s src/fceu.exe
- After being "stripped", I suggest using upx, http://upx.sourceforge.net/, to compress the executable.
- The program should be in your home directory under c:\msys\1.0\home\|username|\fceu-0.98.26\src\fceu.exe
feos: For the sake of science, I tried compiling this on my Windows. It appears to heavily depend on old libs and compilers, and after solving that, it built a silent program for me. If anyone has success trying it out, please post here or PM me.