swars

This is a continuation of the project created by Unavowed and Gynvael Coldwind. It also incorporates one of the fixes discovered by mefistotelis related to structure packing. See http://swars.vexillium.org for details.

Usage

Usage: swars.exe [OPTIONS]

Available options:
  --windowed=WxH Run in windowed mode at specified resolution. Default is 640x480
  --fullwindow   Run in fullscreen borderless window mode
  --monitor=X    Display on monitor X
  --help         Display the help message

Building on Windows 7 (64-bit) from the original source

Download mingw-get-setup.exe and install it to C:\MinGW
In the MinGW Installation Manager, install the mingw-developer-toolkit package from Basic Setup
Run C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat
mingw-get install 'gcc=4.8.1.*' (It's likely that a newer release would be fine but this was the version I used)
mingw-get install 'libz=1.2.8.*'
Close the MINGW32 command prompt window
Download and extract http://swars.vexillium.org/files/swars-0.3.tar.bz2 to C:\projects\swars-0.3
Download python-2.7.13.msi from https://www.python.org/ and install it, ensuring that "Add python.exe to Path" is selected

Installing dependencies

Download and extract the following:
- SDL-1.2.14 to C:\projects\libs\SDL-1.2.14
- OpenAL-1.17.2 to C:\projects\lib\openal-soft-1.17.2-bin
- libvorbis-1.3.5 to C:\projects\lib\libvorbis-1.3.5
- libogg-1.3.2 to C:\projects\libs\libogg-1.3.2
- libpng-1.2.37 to C:\projects\lib\libpng-1.2.37-bin
- libpng-1.2.37 developer files to C:\projects\lib\libpng-1.2.37-lib
Build and install libogg as described below
Build and install libvorbis as described below
Copy the contents of C:\projects\lib\libpng-1.2.37-bin to C:\mingw
Copy the contents of C:\projects\libs\libpng-1.2.37-lib to C:\mingw
Edit C:\projects\libs\SDL-1.2.14\bin\sdl-config and change prefix=/usr/local to prefix=C:/mingw
Copy the directories bin, include, lib, man, and share from C:\projects\libs\SDL-1.2.14 to C:\mingw
Copy bin\Win32\soft_oal.dll from C:\projects\libs\openal-soft-1.17.2-bin to C:\mingw\bin
Copy the directory C:\projects\libs\openal-soft-1.17.2-bin\include to C:\mingw
Copy the contents of C:\projects\libs\openal-soft-1.17.2-bin\libs\Win32 to C:\mingw\lib

Building & installing libogg

Run C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat
cd C:/projects/libs/libogg-1.3.2
LDFLAGS='-mwindows' ./configure --prefix=c:/mingw --host=i686-w64-mingw32
make && make install

Building & installing libvorbis

Run C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat
cd C:/projects/libs/libvorbis-1.3.5
LDFLAGS='-mwindows' ./configure --prefix=c:/mingw --host=i686-w64-mingw32
make && make install

Updating the Makefile

Edit C:\projects\swars-0.3\src\Makefile.windows
Change the LIBS variable at the top to the following:

LIBS	 = -lmsvcrt $(shell sdl-config --libs) -lOpenAL32 -lvorbisfile -lvorbis -logg -lpng -lz

Add -mno-ms-bitfields to the beginning of CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. This is required due to this bug related to structure packing
Delete $(RES) from the OBJ list

Fixing up the source

Edit C:\projects\swars-0.3\src\windows.config.h and uncomment HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY
Edit C:\projects\swars-0.3\src\util.h and add #include <sys/stat.h> under #include <stdbool.h>
Download the game speed patch to C:\projects\swars-0.3
Run C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat
cd c:/projects/swars-0.3
patch -p1 < 0001-Lower-max_fps-and-fix-overly-long-sleep-times.patch

Compiling and installing

Run C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat
cd c:/projects/swars-0.3/src
make -f Makefile.windows
Copy swars.exe from C:\projects\swars-0.3\src to the root of your Syndicate Wars install directory
Copy C:\MinGW\bin\soft_oal.dll to the root of your Syndicate Wars install directory and rename it to OpenAL32.dll
Copy the following files from C:\MinGW\bin to the root of your Syndicate Wars install directory

libpng3.dll
zlib1.dll
libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
SDL.dll
libvorbisfile-3.dll
libvorbis-0.dll
libogg-0.dll

Building on Windows 7 (64-bit) using this repo

Follow the first section above to setup mingw & Python. Use the source code from this repository instead
Install all dependencies with the exception of SDL
Install the SDL2 development library:
- Download and extract SDL2-2.0.5 to C:\projects\libs\SDL2-2.0.5
- Edit C:\projects\libs\SDL2-2.0.5\i686-w64-mingw32\bin\sdl2-config and change the prefix to prefix=C:/mingw
- Copy the contents of C:\projects\libs\SDL2-2.0.5\i686-w64-mingw32 to C:\mingw
Skip the makefile changes
Skip fixing up the source
Compile and install but copy SDL2.dll instead of SDL.dll

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