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- <center><h1>Compiling GtkRadiant on Windows</h1></center>
- <hr />
- <p>This guide explains how to compile GtkRadiant 1.6.x from source code on Windows operating systems.
- The source code is obtained from
- the GtkRadiant Git repository, which is open to the public (details follow).
- These instructions are aimed at developers wanting to test changes to GtkRadiant source code.
- The instructions below have been executed successfully on
- Windows XP 32 bit (some late service pack) and on Windows 7 Professional 64 bit.</p>
- <p>This guide is divided into the following main sections.
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li><h3><a href="#git">Section 1: Installing Git</a></h3></li>
- <li><h3><a href="#python">Section 2: Installing Python</a></h3></li>
- <li><h3><a href="#scons">Section 3: Installing SCons</a></h3></li>
- <li><h3><a href="#svn">Section 4: Installing SVN</a></h3></li>
- <li><h3><a href="#vcpp">Section 5: Installing Visual C++</a></h3></li>
- <li><h3><a href="#sources">Section 6: Obtaining Source Code, Game Paks, and Libs</a></h3></li>
- <li><h3><a href="#compile">Section 7: Compiling GtkRadiant</a></h3></li>
- <li><h3><a href="#run">Section 8: Running GtkRadiant</a></h3></li>
- </ul>
- <hr />
- <br />
- <a name "git"></a>
- <h2>Section 1: Installing Git</h2>
- <p>
- First to install is the Git, Git is a powerful distributed Source Code Management tool and the versioning tool of choice for GtkRadiant development.
- </p>
- <p>
- The hompepage for Git is <a href="http://git-scm.com/">git-scm.com</a>, but we are more interested in
- <a href="http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/">code.google.com/p/msysgit/</a> because this is the windows port of git. You should
- download and install the newest "Full installer for official Git for Windows".
- </p>
- <hr />
- <br />
- <a name="python"></a>
- <h2>Section 2: Installing Python</h2>
- <p>We will now install the Python programming language, which is needed for SCons to work.</p>
- <p>
- The homepage for Python is <a href="http://www.python.org/download">www.python.org</a>. You should download and install
- a 32 bit version of Python, because scons is only avaiable in 32 bit builds. I would strongly recommend sticking to a version of Python
- that is 2.x.x, <i>not</i> 3.x.x. This is because lots of legacy software that uses Python is known to work correctly
- with 2.x.x, but might not necessarily work with 3.x.x. At the time of writing this tutorial, the preferred version of Python
- was 2.7.1. For purposes of this tutorial, Python is installed to <tt>C:\Python27</tt> . All of the default
- options for installing Python should be fine.
- </p>
- <hr />
- <br />
- <a name="scons"></a>
- <h2>Section 3: Installing SCons</h2>
- <p>We will now install SCons, which is a multi-platform substitute for traditional Make.</p>
- <p>
- The homepage for SCons is <a href="http://www.scons.org/download.php">www.scons.org</a>. You should download and install the
- latest production release. During the install procedure you will be asked to confirm the location of your Python
- installation.
- </p>
- <hr />
- <br />
- <a name="svn"></a>
- <h2>Section 4: Installing SVN</h2>
- <p>
- We're now going to install a command-line version of the SVN client that we can use from cmd. We don't need no
- stinkin' GUI. Anyhow, command-line SVN is required to perform the SCons build target later on.
- In fact, you don't need to touch TortoiseSVN or any other GUI-based SVN client for any part of this entire tutorial.
- (I wouldn't touch a GUI-based SVN client with a 10 foot pole given the opportunity to use command-line SVN instead.)
- </p>
- <p>
- The preferred download site for SVN client for Windows is <a href="http://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion/">CollabNet</a>.
- You should download and install CollabNet Subversion Command-Line Client,
- <i>not</i> CollabNet Subversion Edge or something of any other nature. Unfortunately you'll have to create an account with CollabNet
- to download this software, but everything is free. You can use all defaults when installing SVN.
- </p>
- <p>
- The CollabNet version of SVN client for Windows should automatically modify your <tt>PATH</tt> , and you should be able to
- execute the <tt>svn</tt> command in cmd after closing cmd and starting it again. If this is not the case for some strange
- reason, you'll have to tweak your environment to ensure that you can execute the <tt>svn</tt> command from cmd.
- </p>
- <hr />
- <br />
- <a name="vcpp"></a>
- <h2>Section 5: Installing Visual C++</h2>
- <p>
- The GtkRadiant developers are currently using Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 to compile GtkRadiant. Even though Visual C++ 2010 is a newer
- version, don't use it [unless you want to be on your own]. You can download Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition from
- <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2008-editions/express">this Microsoft webpage</a>.
- </p>
- <p>
- When you install Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition, you can install the bare minimum application <i>without</i> any extras such as
- Microsoft Silverlight Runtime or Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition. For the rest of the install options, the
- defaults can be chosen.
- </p>
- <hr />
- <br />
- <a name="sources"></a>
- <h2>Section 6: Obtaining Source Code, Game Paks, and Libs</h2>
- <p>We are now ready to get the source code for GtkRadiant.</p>
- <h3>Step A: Get Base Project</h3>
- <p>
- Open an Git Bash shell. When you start the shell, you will be in what is called your "home directory". You can execute the
- <tt>pwd</tt> command in Git Bash to find out which directory you are currently in. For example, when I start Git Bash, my
- current directory is <tt>/c/Users/Christian</tt> .
- </p>
- <p>
- In any case, we need to create ourselves a work area for purposes of downloading files and compiling software. I would recommend
- creating a directory <tt>radiant-work</tt> in your home directory. So:
- </p>
- <blockquote>
- <pre width="80" style="background: #CCCCCC; padding: 2mm; border-style: ridge">$ <b>mkdir radiant-work</b>
-</pre>
- </blockquote>
- <p>Now, we're going to change to that directory and get the base GtkRadiant project:</p>
- <blockquote>
- <pre width="88" style="background: #CCCCCC; padding: 2mm; border-style: ridge">$ <b>cd radiant-work</b>
-$ <b>git clone git://github.com/TTimo/GtkRadiant.git</b>
-</pre>
- </blockquote>
- <p>We created the extra <tt>radiant-work</tt> parent directory of <tt>GtkRadiant</tt> because the following step will
- place many files into the project's parent directory, and we don't want to litter our home directory with these files.</p>
- <h3>Step B: Execute SCons Build Target</h3>
- <p>
- Remember all the work we did earlier in order to install SCons? Well, thanks to all that work we did,
- obtaining the remaining things we need for compiling is really really easy:
- </p>
- <p>
- Open a cmd shell and execute:
- </p>
- <blockquote>
- <pre width="80" style="background: #CCCCCC; padding: 2mm; border-style: ridge">$ <b>cd radiant-work\GtkRadiant</b>
-$ <b>C:\Python27\Scripts\scons.bat target=setup</b>
-</pre>
- </blockquote>
- <p>This SCons build target performs several actions:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Downloads "install paks" for several games such as Quake III Arena and Urban Terror.</li>
- <li>Downloads library dependencies (such as GTK+) for building and running GtkRadiant.</li>
- <li>Places library dependencies in proper locations.</li>
- <li>Performs any other actions needed prior to compiling GtkRadiant.</li>
- </ul>
- <hr />
- <br />
- <a name="compile"></a>
- <h2>Section 7: Compiling GtkRadiant</h2>
- <p>We are now finally going to compile GtkRadiant using Microsoft Visual C++.</p>
- <p>
- Start Microsoft Visual C++. From the "File" menu, choose "Open" -> "Project/Solution...".
- Navigate to your <tt>GtkRadiant</tt> directory (in my case <tt>C:\Users\Christian\radiant-work\GtkRadiant</tt>).
- Choose the project file <tt>radiant.sln</tt> from this directory.
- </p>
- <p>
- You now have the GtkRadiant project loaded in Visual C++. You can poke around if you like, e.g. open up some source code
- files and edit them.
- </p>
- <p>
- Before you build the project, you might want to select the "Release" target (as pictured below).
- </p>
- <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
- <tr>
- <td width="20"> </td>
- <td><img src="vc-radiant-release.png" alt="vc-radiant-release.png"></img></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
- <p>
- To build GtkRadiant, choose "Build Solution" from the "Build" menu. The build will take
- about 10 minutes [on a Pentium 4 with HTT], so this would be a good time to go get a cup of tea.
- </p>
- <p>If the build completes successfully, you will get a message similar to the following in the output
- of Visual C++:</p>
- <blockquote>
- <pre width="80" style="background: #CCCCCC; padding: 2mm; border-style: ridge">radiant - 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)
-========== Build: 38 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
-</pre>
- </blockquote>
- <hr />
- <br />
- <a name="run"></a>
- <h2>Section 8: Running GtkRadiant</h2>
- <p>All of the files needed to run GtkRadiant are going to be in the folder <tt>radiant-work\GtkRadiant\install</tt> [relative
- to your home directory]. You can copy the entire <tt>install</tt> folder to some place such as your Desktop
- and you can rename this folder to <tt>ZeroRadiant</tt> for example.
- Then, you will use <tt>radiant.exe</tt> in that directory to launch the application.
- </p>
- <p>
- There is one little bit of optional cleanup you can perform on your installation folder. You can remove all SVN-related
- files since they are no longer needed and only take up disk space. Let's say that you renamed your installation folder
- to <tt>ZeroRadiant</tt> (as the previous paragraph suggests), and let's say that you're in the cmd shell, and that your current
- working directory is the directory of <tt>ZeroRadiant</tt>. Then, in your cmd shell, you can execute this command to
- delete all SVN-related files (all <tt>.svn</tt> directories):
- </p>
- <blockquote>
- <pre width="80" style="background: #CCCCCC; padding: 2mm; border-style: ridge">$ <b>for /r %R in (.svn) do if exist %R (rd /s /q "%R")</b>
-</pre>
- </blockquote>
- <p>
- That's it! Good luck and thanks for reading this enhanced tutorial! If you have comments or suggestions please email me at nlandys@gmail.com or the updater christian_ratzenhofer@yahoo.de.
- More information about GtkRadiant is on <a href="http://icculus.org/gtkradiant/">icculus.org/gtkradiant</a>.
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