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Rockbox Utility with Visual Studio
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This document describes how to build Rockbox Utility using Visual Studio.
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*Note*: building with Visual Studio is only useful for debugging / development.
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Since several parts used by Rockbox Utility can't be compiled using Visual
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Studio at all using DLLs is required. For distributing we want a statically
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linked binary, which does not work this way. Building with MinGW is much easier
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in general, since using VS requires the use of MinGW as well.
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All of the steps described below are to be performed in the folder this file is
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located in on a command prompt (cmd.exe on Windows). All paths stated are the
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default paths on an english Windows XP setup. You might need to adjust them to
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your system.
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Steps
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Building with VS requires several steps:
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1. Prepare your build environment
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2. Build DLLs using MinGW for the parts that cannot be compiled with VS and
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create LIB files from the DLLs. This requires using tools from VS.
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3. Create a VS project file
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4. Build the remaining code using VS.
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Preparing the build environment
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The DLLs can be cross compiled on Linux. Everything else has to be done on
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Windows. If you decide to cross compile, you need to install:
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- Linux
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- MinGW toolchain
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- Windows
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- MinGW with (at least) the mingw32-make package.
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- Visual Studio 2008 (other versions might work but are not tested. Express
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version is sufficient).
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- Windows Platform SDK (in case you're using the Express version of VS,
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otherwise this is included in VS)
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- Qt SDK for VS.
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If you decide to not cross compile the DLLs you need to install additionally to
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the programs listed above on Windows:
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- MinGW with the following packages (and their dependencies):
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- mingw32-gcc
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- mingw32-make
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- msys-coreutils
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- msys-sed
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- msys-bash
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- msys-grep
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On Windows, open a command prompt and set up your path:
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set PATH=c:\MinGW\bin;c:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin;%PATH%
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c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9\Common7\Tools\vsvars.bat
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Building DLLs and LIBs
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On Linux, run
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make CROSS=i686-pc-mingw32-
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Adjust the CROSS variable to the prefix of your cross compiler. This will
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create the DLL files only. Copy the resulting DLL and DEF files to the Windows
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machine, then proceed with the Windows instructions below. The Makefile will
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not remake the DLLs if they are already present.
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On Windows, run
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mingw32-make
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This will build the DLL files (if missing) and create LIB files from them.
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Create a VS project file
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To create a project file for VS, run
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c:\QtSDK\Desktop\Qt\4.7.4\msvc2008\bin\qmake.exe -tp vc
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This creates a file RockboxUtility.vcproj.
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Build using VS
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Open the generated project file and build as usual with VS.
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LICENSE INFORMATION
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===================
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This folder contains additional files necessary for building.
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- stdbool.h: taken form clang 2.8
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- stdint.h, inttypes.h: taken from the msinttypes project
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(http://code.google.com/p/msinttypes) r26.
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See the source files for detailed license information.
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