AntiMicro is a graphical program used to map keyboard keys and mouse controls to a gamepad. This program is useful for playing PC games using a gamepad that do not have any form of built-in gamepad support. However, you can use this program to control any desktop application with a gamepad; on Linux, this means that your system has to be running an X environment in order to run this program.
This program is currently supported under various Linux distributions and Windows Vista and later. At the time of writing this, AntiMicro works in Windows XP but, since Windows XP is no longer supported, running the program in Windows XP will not be officially supported. However, efforts will be made to not intentionally break compatibility with Windows XP.
This program is licensed under the GPL v.3. Please read the gpl.txt text document included with the source code if you would like to read the terms of the license. The license can also be found online at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.
Download links are currently available from the AntiMicro Releases section on GitHub. Currently, the Windows archive, Debian Jessie deb files, and source code archives can be found in the Releases section.
https://github.com/Ryochan7/antimicro/releases
For Ubuntu users, there is now a PPA available that you can use to have your package manager grab the latest AntiMicro updates automatically. For more details, check out the AntiMicro page on Launchpad.
https://launchpad.net/~ryochan7/+archive/ubuntu/antimicro
There is a repository for pre-made AntiMicro profiles. Using a pre-made profile, you can have a controller layout that is suitable for playing a game without having to map everything yourself. It makes using AntiMicro really convenient. In order to use those pre-made profiles, you have to be running at least AntiMicro version 2.0 and AntiMicro must have been compiled with SDL 2 support.
https://github.com/Ryochan7/antimicro-profiles
This program is written in C++ using the Qt framework. A C++ compiler and a proper C++ build environment will need to be installed on your system prior to building this program. Under Debian and Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu, the easiest way to get a base build environment set up is to install the meta-package build-essential. The following packages are required to be installed on your system in order to build this program:
- g++
- cmake
- libqt4-dev
- libsdl1.2-dev (or libsdl2-dev)
- libxtst-dev
- libX11-dev
In order to build this program, open a terminal and cd into the antimicro directory. Enter the following commands in order to build the program:
cd antimicro
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
The installation path of antimicro can be customized by specifying the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX variable while running cmake.
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
This will install the antimicro executable to /usr/bin/antimicro. By default, the executable will be installed to /usr/local/bin/antimicro.
The cmake step will use pkg-config to attempt to find any SDL libraries that you have installed. The project is set up to look for a copy of SDL 2 followed by SDL 1.2. This behavior should work fine for most people. You can override this behavior by using the -DUSE_SDL_2 option when you run cmake. Using -DUSE_SDL_2=ON when you run cmake will mean that you want AntiMicro compiled with SDL 2 support. Using -DUSE_SDL_2=OFF when you run cmake will mean that you want AntiMicro compiled with SDL 1.2 support.
Here is an example of how to specify that you want AntiMicro to be compiled with SDL 2 support when you run qmake.
cmake -DUSE_SDL_2=ON ..
Instructions provided by aybe @ https://github.com/aybe. Modified by Travis Nickles.
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Download and install CMake: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
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You will need Qt with MinGW support: http://qt-project.org/downloads
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download SDL development package : http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-devel-2.0.3-mingw.tar.gz
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open the archive and drop the 'SDL2-2.0.3' folder in the 'antimicro' folder
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open the project (CMakeLists.txt) in Qt Creator The CMake Wizard will appear the first time you open the project in Qt Creator.
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Choose a Build Location. The recommendation is to create a "build" folder under the root antimicro folder and choose that for the build location.
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In the Run CMake section, in the Arguments field, please input
-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=<Path to mingw48_32 Qt install>-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release. Replace "<Path to mingw48_32 Qt install>" with the actual path to your Qt installation. The default path for version Qt 5.3.0 is C:\Qt\Qt5.3.0\5.3\mingw482_32. -
Choose "MinGW Generator" for the Generator option in the Run CMake section
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Click the Run CMake button and then click Finish
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In the main IDE window, open the Build menu and select "Build All" (Ctrl+Shift+B)
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The application will need SDL2.DLL. A build step has been added to CMakeLists.txt in order to automate the process. Click the "Projects" icon in the sidebar to bring up the "Build Settings" section. Within "Build Steps", click the "Details" button on the Make entry. In the expanded menu, uncheck the "all" checkbox and then check the "copy_sdl_dll" checkbox and run "Build All".
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At this point, AntiMicro has been built for Windows and is runnable from Qt Creator. A couple more steps are required in order to make a distributable package.
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Under "Build Settings", expand the Make menu and check the "install" and "install_dlls" checkboxes.
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Under the "Build" menu in the main window, select "Run CMake" and add
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<DIR>option and replace<DIR>with the directory that you want to install the application. The default for me is C:\Program Files (x86)\AntiMicro although I use a different directory when bundling the Window version for other users. -
Run "Build All" to have the application and required DLLs installed into the final location that will be ready for distribution.
##Building the Windows Installer Package (MSI)
(these instructions have been tested with WiX 3.8)
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you need to have WiX installed, grab it at http://wixtoolset.org/
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the building process relies on the WIX environment, it is recommended that you download the installer instead of the binaries as it it will set it up for you
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if Qt Creator is running while you install or upgrade to a newer version then make sure to restart it as it will either not find that environment variable or fetch the old (incorrect) value from the previous version
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to build the MSI package, click on the "Projects" icon in the sidebar, click the "Details" button on the make entry, uncheck all other options and check the "buildmsi" box.
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currently it relies on INSTALL to copy files at the location they are harvested, this might change in the future
Notes about the WXS file and the building process :
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the WXS file has been generated with WixEdit and manually modified to contain relative paths, it will only work from the 'windows' sub-folder (or any other)
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WixCop can be run against the WXS file and it should not point out any errors as the WXS has been corrected previously with the -F switch
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CNDL1113 warning : shortucts are advertised, left as-is as a nice feature about them is that if the program gets corrupted it will be repaired by Windows Installer, by design the shortcuts will not point to antimicro.exe as a regular LNK file
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LGHT1073 warning : SDL2.DLL does not specify its language in the language column, not a big deal; it could be recompiled but it's pretty much a time waste as it would only prevent this warning
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all of these warnings have been made silent through the use of command-line switches.
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built MSI package will be placed in /windows
This section is where some of the ideas for future features for this program will be written.
- Write documentation for portions of the program.
Along with this, I will put the simple mind map that I am using to write ideas for future development into the repository for this program. The mind map will include extra notes that are not available in this README. Opening the mind map will require the use of the program FreeMind which can be downloaded from http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page.
A big inspiration for this program was the program QJoyPad (http://qjoypad.sourceforge.net/). I was a user of the program for years and it is unfortunate that the program is no longer being maintained. The source code for QJoyPad was an invaluable resource when I made the first version of this program and the UI for this program mostly resembles QJoyPad.
Travis Nickles nickles.travis@gmail.com
aybe
Zerro Alvein
Jeff Backus jeff.backus@gmail.com
VaGNaroK vagnarokalkimist@gmail.com - Brazilian Portuguese
Belleguic Terence hizo@free.fr - French
Leonard Koenig leonard.r.koenig@googlemail.com - German
phob - German
Dmitriy Koshel form.eater@gmail.com - Russian
Jay Alexander Fleming tito.nehru.naser@gmail.com - Serbian