Building OLA for Windows

This describes how to get OLA compiled for windows, it's a work in progress so it's unlikely to work as is.

Install Mingw, msys & build tools

The instructions at http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS are very helpful. There are similar instructions at http://www.cccp-project.net/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_MSYS-MinGW

• Install mingw and msys

• Download these packages
  • autoconf [1]
  • automake [2]
  • libtool [3]

• Launch the msys shell

• Unpack autoconf, automake and libtool to a directory of your choice.

• Install each of them with the following command:

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

• Update PKG_CONFIG_PATH

As all the libraries will be installed in /mingw, PKG_CONFIG_PATH must be set.

Open the file /etc/profile (C:\msys\1.0\etc\profile) with your favorite editor (make sure it uses LF line endings) and add:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/mingw/lib/pkgconfig"

You might also want to set CFLAGS. Safe options for MinGW are:

CFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -mms-bitfields -march=i686"

just before

export HOME LOGNAME MSYSTEM HISTFILE

and modify that line by adding the variables:

export HOME LOGNAME MSYSTEM HISTFILE CFLAGS PKG_CONFIG_PATH

Now restart MSYS. You should now be able to use MSYS without problems.

Install Git

See http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/, be sure to select "unix style carriage returns" otherwise you'll get autoconf errors.

Install Dependencies

• http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/ . Note you need to install the .tar.gz as the zip just contains protoc (we need the libraries as well)
• http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/ , be sure to run configure with ./configure --prefix=/mingw --includedir /mingw/include/ossp
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/cppunit/files/ , download version
• http://code.google.com/p/google-ctemplate/ , you need at least 0.97, see http://code.google.com/p/google-ctemplate/issues/detail?id=48

Build OLA

• Do a git checkout of OLA

• Run ./configure

 $ ./configure

• Build

 $ make

Current TODO

• Fix the Socket & SelectServer classes or replace them with whatever makes sense on windows
• The USB Pro plugin needs a way to find devices, obviously /dev doesn't exist
• The DMX USB requires libusb win32. Not sure what the status of this is