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h1. Build Quassel on Windows Mingw

h2. You have two possibilitys to build Quassel with Mingw

# Build Quassel with QT only

h2. Build Quassel with QT only

h2. Software Requirements

* "QT SDK":http://qt.nokia.com/downloads

* "DBGHELP Mingw":http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6292727/dbghelp/dbghelp.zip

* "CMake":http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html

h2. Installation

h3. Step 1: Install QT SDK

Download and install the QT SDK and select mingw to install with QT.

h3. Step 2: Install DBGHELP Mingw

If you are using  mingw w64 skip this step 

Download "DBGHELP Mingw":http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6292727/dbghelp/dbghelp.zip and extract it to your mingw root

h3. Step 3: Install CMake

h2. Checkout Quassel Mingw branch

* "git clone git://gitorious.org/quassel/quassel.git"

h2. Compile Quassel

* open a command line

* add mingw to your path  (set PATH=%PATH%;'mingwdir')

* add cmake to your path (analog to mingw)

* add QT to yo your path, 'qt\version'\qt\bin

* switch to the directory where you checked out Quassel

* type "mkdir build"

* type "cd build"

* type "cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" .."

* type "mingw32-make"

h2. Build Quassel with Windows KDE

# got to the "Emerge Tutorial":http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/emerge

# check out emerge and set up the kdesettings.bat acording to the kde tutorial

# install quassel "emerge quassel" emerge will install all dependency's for you

# when emerge has finished all jobs, start quassel

The steps above would also be possible with msvc2008