How to build on Windows? #429
Description
I installed msys from https://www.msys2.org/
I admit I am a noob when it comes to mingw and gcc, although I use C++ professionally (Visual Studio).
With a fresh install on Windows 11, the Windows instructions do not work out the box.
I tried installing some prerequests by performing
pacman -Syu
(then restart the msys2)
pacman -Su
I get:
src/utils/gl.h:37:14: fatal error: GL/glew.h: No such file or directory 37 | # include "GL/glew.h"
` ...
I checked with Claude, and it suggested installing these too:
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-glew pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-mesa
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-freeglut pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-glm
I then get this (I cut it down a bit):
g++ -o goxel.exe -Wl,-no-undefined --static src/action.o src/assets.o src/camera.o src/file_format.o src/filters.o src/filters/colors.o src/filters/mirror.o src/filters/wrap.o src/formats/gltf.o src/formats/gox.o src/formats/luanti.o src/formats/png.o src/formats/png_slices.o src/formats/povray.o src/formats/qubicle.o src/formats/qubicle2.o src/formats/txt.o src/formats/vox.o src/formats/voxlap.o src/formats/vxl.o src/formats/wavefront.o src/gesture.o src/gesture3d.o src/gizmos.o src/goxel.o src/gui.o src/gui/about.o src/gui/app.o src/gui/cameras_panel.o src/gui/debug_panel.o src/gui/edit_panel.o src/gui/export_panel.o src/gui/image_panel.o src/gui/layers_panel.o src/gui/light_panel.o src/gui/material_panel.o src/gui/menu.o src/gui/palette_panel.o src/gui/quit.o src/gui/render_panel.o src/gui/settings.o src/gui/snap_panel.o src/gui/symmetry_panel.o src/gui/tools_panel.o src/gui/topbar.o src/gui/view_panel.o src/i18n.o src/image.o src/imgui.o src/layer.o src/main.o src/marchingcube.o src/material.o src/meshoptimizer.o src/model3d.o src/palette.o src/pathtracer.o src/quantization.o src/quickjs.o src/render.o src/script.o src/shader_cache.o src/shape.o src/system.o src/tests.o src/theme.o src/tools.o src/tools/brush.o src/tools/color_picker.o src/tools/extrude.o src/tools/fuzzy_select.o src/tools/laser.o src/tools/line.o src/tools/move.o src/tools/plane.o src/tools/rect_select.o src/tools/selection.o src/tools/shape.o src/utils.o src/utils/b64.o src/utils/box.o src/utils/cache.o src/utils/color.o src/utils/geometry.o src/utils/gl.o src/utils/img.o src/utils/ini.o src/utils/json.o src/utils/mo_reader.o src/utils/mustache.o src/utils/path.o src/utils/sound.o src/utils/texture.o src/utils/vec.o src/volume.o src/volume_to_vertices.o src/volume_utils.o src/xxhash.o src/yocto.o -lglfw3 -lopengl32 -lglew32 -lz -ltre -lgdi32 -lComdlg32 -lole32 -luuid -lshell32
Building compilation database compile_commands.json
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/goxel.o:goxel.c:(.text+0xbf6): undefined reference to `__imp___glewBindFramebuffer'
....
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/gui.o:gui.cpp:(.text+0x2b05): undefined reference to `__imp___glewBufferData'
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/main.o:main.c:(.text+0x205): undefined reference to `NFD_Init'
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/main.o:main.c:(.text+0x2b5): undefined reference to `NFD_SaveDialogU8_With_Impl'
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/main.o:main.c:(.text+0x2bc): undefined reference to `NFD_Quit'
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/main.o:main.c:(.text+0x333): undefined reference to `NFD_OpenDialogU8_With_Impl'
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/main.o:main.c:(.text+0x33a): undefined reference to `NFD_Quit'
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/main.o:main.c:(.text.startup+0x4cb): undefined reference to `__imp_glewInit'
....
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/render.o:render.c:(.text+0x113a): undefined reference to `__imp___glewEnableVertexAttribArray'
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/render.o:render.c:(.text+0x114f): undefined reference to `__imp___glewBindBuffer'
....
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/utils/gl.o:gl.c:(.text+0x23): undefined reference to `__imp___glewShaderSource'
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/utils/gl.o:gl.c:(.text+0x5f): undefined reference to `__imp___glewCompileShader'
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/utils/gl.o:gl.c:(.text+0x6a): undefined reference to `__imp___glewGetShaderiv'
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/utils/gl.o:gl.c:(.text+0xde): undefined reference to `__imp___glewGetShaderInfoLog'
....
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/utils/gl.o:gl.c:(.text+0x948): undefined reference to `__imp___glewUniform2fv'
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/utils/texture.o:texture.c:(.text+0x19): undefined reference to `__imp___glewActiveTexture'
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/utils/texture.o:texture.c:(.text+0x26f): undefined reference to `__imp___glewGenerateMipmap'
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/utils/texture.o:texture.c:(.text+0x603): undefined reference to `__imp___glewBindFramebuffer'
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/utils/texture.o:texture.c:(.text+0x618): undefined reference to `__imp___glewDeleteRenderbuffers'
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/utils/texture.o:texture.c:(.text+0x631): undefined reference to `__imp___glewDeleteRenderbuffers'
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/utils/texture.o:texture.c:(.text+0x643): undefined reference to `__imp___glewDeleteFramebuffers'
.. ../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: src/utils/texture.o:texture.c:(.text+0x6e9): undefined reference to `__imp___glewBindFramebuffer'
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Understandably its probably my noob user error, but it would nice if the readme was more comprehensive/foolproof from a fresh install in anycase.
Thank you