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Okay, so my OS is Linux Mint, and I want to create windows binaries so people on windows do not have to compile my fork themselves to play it.

How do I make this :
https://github.com/Vajrapani/X-Crawl

into a nice windows executable? What I've read so far only deals with making single files into single executables, rather than something as big as the crawl codebase.

There's some brief discussion of how to do cross-compiling here. Basically, install the mingw cross-compiling environment as appropriate under your distro, and run the build command described there.

EDIT: Solved my own problem.

I wasn't using git at all, I was just making changes manually on my machine, then editing it on the github website. That was was dumb, and led to submodules missing.

So, did you run both of:

Code:: git submodule init git submodule update

?

. I wasn't using git like a dumbass.

Ok, so the windows executable has been made, but I get this at the end:

Code:: if i686-w64-mingw32-g++ -dumpmachine|grep -q x86_64; \ then WINARCH=win64; else WINARCH=win32; fi; \ makensis -NOCD -DVERSION=0.22-a0-425-g8dc0c08 -DWINARCH="$WINARCH" util/crawl.nsi /bin/sh: 3: makensis: not found make: *** [package-windows] Error 127

Apparently you can't get nsis on linux, and makensis can't be gotten easily with a 'apt-get install', and the file has been made succesfully (I guess?), so is this a big error, and I do I need 'makensis' on Linux?

Vajrapani wrote:Ok, so the windows executable has been made, but I get this at the end:

Code:
if i686-w64-mingw32-g++ -dumpmachine|grep -q x86_64; \ then WINARCH=win64; else WINARCH=win32; fi; \ makensis -NOCD -DVERSION=0.22-a0-425-g8dc0c08 -DWINARCH="$WINARCH" util/crawl.nsi /bin/sh: 3: makensis: not found make: *** [package-windows] Error 127

Apparently you can't get nsis on linux, and makensis can't be gotten easily with a 'apt-get install', and the file has been made succesfully (I guess?), so is this a big error, and I do I need 'makensis' on Linux?

to get 'makensis':
https://blog.alejandrocelaya.com/2014/0 ... -in-linux/

Technically you don't need the windows installer at all, you can just zip up the requisite stuff and send it and have your friends unzip it where it goes, the installer is just a nicety that puts things in the right places.

Oh, I see. Then I should have used the

Code:: make CROSSHOST=i686-w64-mingw32 package-windows-zips

to just get the zip files.

rather than using

Code:: make CROSSHOST=i686-w64-mingw32 package-windows

and needing makensis

Thanks

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