This is a set of scripts for building OpenSlide for Windows, including all of its dependencies, using MinGW-w64.
Cross-compiling from Linux
You will need:
- MinGW-w64 gcc and g++ for the target architecture (
i686orx86_64) - NASM
- OpenJDK
- Apache Ant
- CMake
- gettext utility programs
- glib2 utility programs
- Native gcc and binutils for your build platform
Then:
./build.sh bdist
Building natively on Windows
One-time setup
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Install a JDK.
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Install Cygwin, accepting the default set of packages. Make note of the location of the installer EXE.
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Launch a Cygwin shell and navigate to the openslide-winbuild directory.
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Execute:
./build.sh setup /path/to/cygwin/setup.exe
Building
./build.sh bdist
Note that cross-compiling is much faster than compiling natively.
Troubleshooting
The build will fail if the path to the openslide-winbuild directory contains spaces.
If the build randomly fails complaining that fork() failed due to a DLL
address mismatch, follow the instructions here.
Substitute Sources
To override the source tree used to build a package, create a top-level
directory named override and place the substitute source tree in a
subdirectory named after the package's shortname. A list of shortnames
can be obtained by running build.sh with no arguments.
build.sh Subcommands
setup
Configure Cygwin environment. Only useful on Windows. The path to Cygwin's
setup.exe must be specified as an argument.
sdist
Build Zip file containing build system and sources for OpenSlide and all dependencies.
bdist
Build Zip file containing binaries of OpenSlide and all dependencies.
clean
Delete build and binary directories, but not downloaded tarballs. If one or more package shortnames is specified, delete only the build artifacts for those packages in the specified bitness.
updates
Check for new releases of software packages.
Options
These must be specified before the subcommand.
-j<n>
Parallel build with the specified parallelism.
-m{32|64}
Select 32-bit or 64-bit build (default: 32).
-p<pkgver>
Set package version string in Zip file names to pkgver.
-s<suffix>
Append suffix to the OpenSlide version string.