Windows Builds

[mesheets]

The Makefile does not appear to reference a Windows build, and platform-specific files such as rcxlib/RCX_USBTowerPipe_win.cpp do not appear to be included in the build.

Also see the file "PORTING" for additional details.

[winklerp]

Any tutorial how to build this repo for Windows?

[mesheets]

Hello! Based on the PORTING file, “The Mac and Win32 version [were] built under Metrowerks CodeWarrior” (CodeWarrior is now owned by NXP). I have not yet come across any further details.

The Linux version can be built using GNU tools. If one counts Windows Subsystem for Linux, it can be built to run under Windows that way. The NQC CI workflow for GitHub Actions provides an example of how to build. The Linux executable of NQC could then be called from Windows using the wsl command (e.g. wsl echo "Hello from $(uname)").

As long as any existing usage under Windows isn't explicitly specifying nqc.exe and is instead only naming nqc, a simple nqc.bat file could be created as a Windows-based wrapper for the Linux executable under WSL:

@echo off
wsl nqc %*