How To Compile FCEU In Windows

You can find them at http://www.mingw.org/. Look for the Current MSYS and Current MinGW. Everything else can be ignored unless you know what you're doing.

libSDL for MinGW

You can find it at http://www.libsdl.org/.

The DirectX 7a headers and libraries for MinGW

You can find it at http://alleg.sourceforge.net/index.html

Zlib

You can find it at http://www.zlib.net/

Windows API libraries

http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml

FCEU source

Which I think you should have since you want to compile it. ;)

Things to do

Install MinGW and MSYS.

Simply run the EXEs and follow the directions. Install MSYS AFTER MinGW

Install the DirectX 7 headers and libraries and Windows API libraries

Simply unzip the archive to C:\MinGW.
There will be an include folder and a lib folder. Do NOT extract to C:\MinGW\dx70_mgw.
Or you can extract to some folder and copy the include and lib folder over the C:\MinGW directory. You should do the same thing with Windows API libraries.

Install libSDL.

Start MSYS and put SDL-devel-1.x.x.mingw.tar.gz in your home directory.
The path will be something like c:\msys\1.0\home\|username|

Untar the archive

  gzip -cd SDL-devel-1.x.x.mingw.tar.gz | tar x

Now build libSDL

  make install-sdl prefix=/mingw

Install Zlib

Stay in MSYS, or reopen it if you closed it.
Put the zlib-1.x.x.tar.gz archive in your MSYS home dir.

Untar the archive

  tar xvfz zlib-1.x.x.tar.gz

or for bz2

  tar xvfj zlib-1.x.x.tar.bz2

Now change to zlib directory

  cd zlib-1.x.x

Configure and build zlib

  ./configure --prefix=/mingw
  make && make install

Compile fceu

Stay in MSYS, or reopen it if you closed it.
Extract fceu-0.98.12-blip.src.rar to c:\msys\1.0\home\|username| .

Change to the fceu directory

  cd fceu-0.98.12-blip.src

Configure the Makefile

  ./configure --with-nativewin32

or for opengl

  ./configure --with-nativewin32 --with-opengl

Build the resource file

  windres -o src/res.o src/drivers/win/res.res

Now make

  make

Strip the executable to make it small

This is optional.

Staying in MSYS, run the strip program.

  strip -s src/fceu.exe

After being "stripped", I suggest using upx, http://upx.sourceforge.net/ , to compress the executable.

The program should be in your home directory under c:\msys\1.0\home\|username|\fceu-0.98.12-blip.src\src\fceu.exe

HowToCompileFCEUInWindows last edited by Phil on 2006-10-21 16:00:20
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