Building from Source

Adapted from the instructions on the forum.

Prerequisites

• git
• cmake
• working compiler (mingw, mingw64, visual studio 20xx)
  • if you want to target windows xp with VS2012, you have to update it to the latest

Quick instructions

Visual Studio

• Get the sources
• Run cmake-gui
  • Select source dir (ends with \BlackboxZero)
  • Select build dir (should not be the same as source dir)
  • Configure
  • Build
• Open the Solution
• Build
• Build project install

Full instructions

1. Get the sources from github

git clone https://github.com/xzero450/bbclean-xzero450.git

There are two branches right now (as of january 2014):

• master: contains 1.17.1 as commited by Jonathan "xzero450".
• devel: contains development version of 1.17.2 that was branched from master in november 2013

Switch to devel branch:

  git checkout devel

then init submodules:

  git submodule init
  git submodule sync
  git submodule update --recursive

Note: for a good git guid check out Wine's Wiki

2. cmake

Run cmake-gui (by default it's in C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake\bin\cmake-gui.exe)

1. Select bb's source directory (ends in \BlackboxZero)
2. Select the build directory (where the build-specific files will be)