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h1. Build Quassel on Windows Mingw

h2. Software Requirements


* "QT SDK":http://qt.nokia.com/downloads
* "DBGHELP SDK":http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms679294(VS.85).aspx
* "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 SDK


Download and install DBGHELP.

h3. Step 3:Generate the dbghelp.dll.a for mingw


* Open a command line
* add your mingw installation to %PATH% (set PATH=%PATH%;mingwdir)
* move to 'dbghelp'\sdk\lib\i386
* type "reimp -d dbghelp.lib"
* type "dlltool -k -d dbghelp.def -l dbghelp.dll.a"

h3. Step 4: Install CMake

h2. Ceck out Quassel Mingw branch


* "git remote add -f al git://gitorious.org/~ald/quassel/alds-quassel.git"
* "git checkout al/mingw"

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 'dbghelp'\sdk\lib\i386 to your path
* add 'dbghelp'\sdk\inc\i386 to tour path
* switch to the directory where you checked out Quassel
* type "mkdir build"
* type "cd build"
* type "cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" .."
* type "mingw32-make"