A Crash Course on Compiling VJ on Win32
OK, here's a crash course in compiling Virtual Jaguar on win32. First, you need to download and install
MinGW and MSYS on your machine. Once that's setup properly, go into the MSYS environment and create a directory for the VJ source to live in.
Note that this will all be command line oriented, so to make directory you would type "mkdir vj" (without the quotes) to make a directory called vj in the current directory you're in. To change directories, type "cd vj" (for example) to change into the directory you just created. To get out of that directory, you would type "cd .."; this will take you one directory up in the hierarchy.
Now, you need to put the Virtual Jaguar sources you just downloaded through SVN into the directory you created in the MSYS command line. You can use Windows Explorer to cut and paste the files to the correct place (note that the directory you created will probably be in a subdirectory under C:\MinGW or wherever you installed MinGW).
Now, before you can do anything, you'll have to install a few extra libraries to be able to compile VJ. You'll need
zlib,
libsdl, and
libcdio. Since you'll likely have to deal with tar.gz packages, we'll walk you through that process. As an example, we'll install zlib.
Go to the zlib page linked above and download the latest source code. It will be a file ending in .tar.gz. Download it to the same place that you created the vj subdirectory. Once it has been downloaded, go into the MSYS environment. Type "ls" to see a listing of the current directory (you can put an optional parameter after the ls, such as "ls vj" to see what's in the vj subdirectory without actually having to go
into it). The downloaded zlib package should be there. You would then type "tar xzvf zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz" to decompress the file. It should create a subdirectory for you called "zlib-1.2.3". Now, go into that directory (type "cd zlib-1.2.3"). The steps for compiling and installing the package is to first type "./configure", then type "make", then type "make install".
Assuming all went well, you would repeat these steps for libsdl and libcdio as well. Once all these libraries are compiled and installed in your MSYS environment, you can now go into the vj subdirectory and build it. Here are the steps (almost identical to the library installation steps):
cd vj
make
Now, take a deep breath, then type "./vj". Assuming all went OK, you should have a nice, shiny new Virtual Jaguar to play with. And you're now an unofficial build tester for the Win32 platform. Congratulations! :thumb:
Give it a try and let me know how it goes; I'll help you to navigate over the rough spots.