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TheFallenOne222 · gibberling Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 166

Many of us around the forums have been having some major troubles compiling the source for IVAN, and it has been hindering our ability to do anything with it. Therefore, I figured I'd write this guide on how to get it to compile in MinGW. Feel free to post a guide as to how to get it up and running in other compilers or operating systems, and I'll add it to the tutorial.

First things first - You'll need to get yourself a copy of MinGW. The newest version can be found on this site. Download the newest release candidate. It should be at the top of the page, listed under "Candidate". All you need is the release file, which should be under "MinGW" in that section. No need to worry about the binutils. The newest candidate as of writing this is 3.2.0-rc-3.

Choose your installation directory. After you get MinGW installed, go here to download the SDL libraries. Look under the "Development Libraries" section. Under the "Win32" subsection there should be a release listed with "(Mingw32)" beside it in brackets. That is the release you want, so download that.

Once you download and unzip the SDL libraries (Unzip them to any directory, you only need to grab one thing out of the library), open up Windows Explorer and go to where you unzipped the SDL libraries. Copy the "lib" and "include" directories to the MinGW32 folder, telling it to overwrite any existing files in that directory.

Now you have MinGW32 setup to compile the sourcecode for IVAN. Now, if you don't have it already, go here and download the IVAN source files, ZIP format. Extract them to a directory that is convenient for you.

There are two choices at this point - Either you may modify the makefile for IVAN's sourcecode, or you can add the MinGW bin directory to your path. The easier method is probably adding MinGW to your system's path. Feel free to skip to the section that you would rather do.

Choice 1 - Modifying the Makefile

Now, reopen Windows Explorer and go to the directory where you extracted the IVAN sourcecode. Look for the file "ivanmgw.mak". Rightclick on that file and choose "Edit". At the top of the file, there should be a section like this:

Lege · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:33 pm Post subject:

Sticky!

holybanana · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject:

Thanks for a comprehensive guide. However, IMHO it is easier not to modify our makefile, but instead add your mingw's bin directory to the environment variables, like this

TheFallenOne222 · gibberling Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 166

That's another way it could be done. Smile

I'll add that to the guide.

Atomic · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:24 pm Post subject:

This is really starting to piss me off. Every time I compile I get fatal link error -- cannot find SDL.lib.

I have the dev libraries. I have every file I need, have done everything you suggested (aside from using MinGW -- kinda can't install programs on school computers...). Bloody hell.
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TheFallenOne222 · gibberling Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 166

Atomic · Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:58 pm Post subject:

The Dev libraries were easy -- download the file, open, copy paste. Installing is something else entirely.

Anyway I think I got the problem solved, just before class ended -- just started moving the .lib files into the main source folder. I'll continue on Thursday and see if it works.

And yeah, I'm using .NET. These link errors are the last "errors", though I'm still getting all kinds of lovely warnings about object type conversions (long to int to double, etc)
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TheFallenOne222 · gibberling Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 166

Atomic · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:33 pm Post subject:

Success!

I've managed to compile under MVC.NET. Here's the steps I went through (that I can remember):

1. Get the source code. Put it someplace fairly simple. We'll say you put it in C:ivansource.

2. Download the SDL Dev Libraries, and put them in a folder with the source code. (for example, C:ivansourceSDL)

3. Attempt to build the code; you'll get lots of errors and warnings. This is just to help you jump from file to file and change what you need. Anywhere it says that it cannot open include file SDL.h, put in the full pathname to the file (which should be under C:ivansourceSDLincludeSDL.h, assuming you put everything where I suggested). You'll probably need to compile a few times to get all of them.

4. Now you'll have more compile errors, overloaded math functions. For each of these, put the entire equation that is being modified, in a double(...) function (for example, sqrt(overworld-->cursor) becomes sqrt(double(overworld-->cursor)). That should clear those up.

5. One more step: copy all the files in C:ivansourceSDLlib to C:ivansource. You should now be able to successfully compile, creating an IVAN.exe file in your source folder.

You might still be getting a few billion errors; these wont stop the program from compiling or executing. I'm not sure what effect they'll have on the actual program itself. Hopefully it won't break anything...
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TheFallenOne222 · gibberling Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 166

There's a few easier ways to do what you mentioned. I'll put together something tomorrow, as right now I'm studying for exams.

Planplan · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 8:35 pm Post subject:

I have tested the MinGW method, by registering the bin directory in my path, and it work except small change I done for compiling.
When I try to compile, all instances to "include SDL.h" are wrong. I made chang to the concerned files by puting "include SDL/SDL.h" and it work. Maibe I have to register SDL for MinGW somewhere. Or kill the SDL directory to put all files one level up in the class directory.
But it work, it's the more important ;)
Thanks

TheFallenOne222 · gibberling Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 166

Planplan · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:22 pm Post subject:

Hippy · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 1:47 am Post subject:

Ok you lost me at the start.
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Atomic · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 6:53 am Post subject:

Hippy, you really should even be in this section of the boards. The stuff here requires skill and intelligence, two things you don't appear to have.
Just because there happens to be a thread around doesn't mean you should read and reply to it. Especially if it's in a section of the forum for something you don't know anything about. We're not going to teach you how to program in C++. Come back in, oh, say 5 years, after you've taken at least one class in C++ programming, and have survived a couple years of high school. Actually, give it seven or eight years. That way you'll have some semblance of maturity to boot.
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