Angband/65\Compiling

With Visual C++ (IDE)

The instructions below should give you an optimized, release, version of the game. If you want to compile a debug version make the obvious changes.

Copy 'angband.ico' into the \src\win directory.
Start the VC++ IDE and create a new empty project in the source directory (a new subfolder will be created)
Add all the *.c, *.h and *.rc files from the \src directory and the monster, object, player and win subdirectories.

Configuration Properties / General : Set "output directory" to where you want the .exe (usually ..\..\ ).
C/C++ / General : Set additional include directories to the source directory (usually ..\ )
C/C++ / General : Set warning level to /W4 (optional).
C/C++ / Advanced : Change "Compile as" to "Compile as C code /TC"
C/C++ / Command Line : Type "/DWINDOWS /DNDEBUG" into the Command line.
Linker / Input : Set "additional dependencies" to winmm.lib

NOTE: Earlier builds compiled with Dev-C++ were associated with segment fault crashes. Now seems to be OK.

Create an empty C project, located in the source directory
Add every C file from src/, src/win, src/monster, src/object and src/player.
From Project -> Project Options, General tab set "Win32 console application"
From Project -> Project Options, Build Options tab, set the executable output directory to "..\".
From Project -> Project Options, parameters tab, add -mwindows -DWINDOWS -I. to the compiler options and -lmingw32 -lwinmm -mwindows to the linker options.

Compiling with Linux should be possible (now that some initial problems have been fixed). Compiling guides, hints, etc. are welcome.

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