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Part 2: Building local packages
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This section describes how to compile the necessary additional packages and install them in ${LOCALDESTDIR}. This variable is set to /local32 or /local64, depending on your build environment.

Content

Installing a static pkg-config binary

The pkg-config tool is necessary to build a number of local packages. To resolve of a circular dependency between pkg-config and glib I've provided a staticly linked version we install in ${LOCALDESTDIR}. Later on we'll replace it with our own build.

Unpack the archive and install pkg-config into ${LOCALDESTDIR}. 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget -c http://ingar.satgnu.net/devenv/mingw32/files/msys-pkg-config-0.26-static.zip  && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR}  && \
unzip ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/msys-pkg-config-0.26-static.zip && \
install pkg-config.exe ${LOCALDESTDIR}/bin

There is a bug that affects the next part of this guide, as a workaround we install a pkg-config.sh wrapper script: 

cat >  ${LOCALDESTDIR}/bin/pkg-config.sh << "EOF"
#!/bin/sh
if pkg-config "$@" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
res=true
else
res=false
fi
pkg-config "$@" | tr -d \\r && $res

EOF

Make the script executable and point the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the script: 

chmod ugo+x ${LOCALDESTDIR}/bin/pkg-config.sh && \
echo "PKG_CONFIG=${LOCALDESTDIR}/bin/pkg-config.sh" >> ${LOCALDESTDIR}/etc/profile.local && \
echo "export PKG_CONFIG" >> ${LOCALDESTDIR}/etc/profile.local

Load the altered profile.local: 

source ${LOCALDESTDIR}/etc/profile.local

References:

Building zlib

zlib is a compression library.

Build and install the zlib dll by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget -c http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xzf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz && \
cd zlib-1.2.11 && \
sed 's/-O3/-O3 -mms-bitfields -mthreads/' win32/Makefile.gcc >Makefile.gcc && \
make IMPLIB='libz.dll.a' -fMakefile.gcc && \
install zlib1.dll ${LOCALDESTDIR}/bin && \
install libz.dll.a ${LOCALDESTDIR}/lib && \
install libz.a ${LOCALDESTDIR}/lib && \
install zlib.h ${LOCALDESTDIR}/include && \
install zconf.h ${LOCALDESTDIR}/include

Create the pkgconfig files for zlib: 

echo "prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR}" > ${LOCALDESTDIR}/lib/pkgconfig/zlib.pc && \
cat >> ${LOCALDESTDIR}/lib/pkgconfig/zlib.pc << "EOF"
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
sharedlibdir=${libdir}
includedir=${prefix}/include

Name: zlib
Description: zlib compression library
Version: 1.2.11

Requires:
Libs: -L${libdir} -L${sharedlibdir} -lz
Cflags: -I${includedir}

EOF

Build and install the minizip library: 

cd contrib/minizip && \
autoreconf -i  && \
./configure --prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR} && \
make && \
make install
Building nasm

The Netwide Assembler.

Build and install nasm by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget -c http://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/2.13.01/nasm-2.13.01.tar.gz && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xzf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/nasm-2.13.01.tar.gz && \
cd nasm-2.13.01 && \
./configure --prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR} && \
make && \
make install
Building SDL2

The Simple Direct Media Layer is a cross-platform application framework.

Download a necessary patch:

Build and install SDL2 by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget -c http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-2.0.5.tar.gz && \
wget -c http://ingar.satgnu.net/devenv/mingw32/files/patches/SDL2-2.0.5-fix-duplicate_definition.patch && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xzf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/SDL2-2.0.5.tar.gz && \
cd SDL2-2.0.5 && \
patch -Np1 -i ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/SDL2-2.0.5-fix-duplicate_definition.patch && \
./configure --prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR} && \
make && \
make install

Command explanation:

patch -Np1 -i ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/SDL2-2.0.5-fix-duplicate_definition.patch
SDL2 fails to build with the newer mingw-w64 without this patch.

Build the SDL2 test programs by executing the following commands: 

cd test && \
./autogen.sh && \
./configure && \
make testplatform.exe testgl2.exe testthread.exe

Command explanation:

make testplatform.exe testgl2.exe testthread.exe
Currently, the build of testatomic.exe fails. AS a workaround and to save time, we only build the binaries we actually need.

Run the SDL2 test programs: 

./testplatform

./testgl2

The following test takes some time to complete, it won't show any output until it's done. 

./testthread

References:

Building libpng

libng is PNG image file format library.

Build and install libpng by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget -c --no-check-certificate "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/libpng/libpng-1.6.29.tar.gz" && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xzf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/libpng-1.6.29.tar.gz && \
cd libpng-1.6.29 && \
./configure --prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR} && \
make && \
make install

Building libjpeg

libjpeg is a JPEG image file format library.

Build and install libjpeg by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget -c http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v9b.tar.gz && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xzf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/jpegsrc.v9b.tar.gz && \
cd jpeg-9b && \
./configure --prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR} --enable-shared --enable-static && \
make && \
make install

Building libtiff

libtiff provides support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data.

Build and install libtiff by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget -c ftp://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.0.8.tar.gz && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xzf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/tiff-4.0.8.tar.gz && \
cd tiff-4.0.8 && \
./configure --prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR} && \
make && \
make install

Building libwebp

WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web.

Build and install libwebp by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget --no-check-certificate -c https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-0.6.0.tar.gz && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xzf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/libwebp-0.6.0.tar.gz && \
cd libwebp-0.6.0 && \
./configure --prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR} && \
make && \
make install

Building SDL2_image

SDL2_image is an image support library for SDL2

Build and install SDL_image by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget -c http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/release/SDL2_image-2.0.1.tar.gz && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xzf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/SDL2_image-2.0.1.tar.gz --exclude=Xcode && \
cd SDL2_image-2.0.1 && \
./configure --prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR} && \
make && \
make install

Building SDL2_ttf

SDL2_ttf is a TrueType font support library for SDL2.

Buildling SDL2_ttf requires FreeType to be installed first. You might want to skip this section for now and return after the FreeType library has been installed.

Build and install SDL_image by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget --no-check-certificate -c https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/release/SDL2_ttf-2.0.14.tar.gz && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xzf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/SDL2_ttf-2.0.14.tar.gz --exclude=Xcode && \
cd SDL2_ttf-2.0.14 && \
./configure --prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR} && \
make && \
make install

Building OpenAL Soft

OpenAL Soft is an implementation of the OpenAL 3D audio API.

Build and install OpenAL Soft by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget -c http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal-releases/openal-soft-1.17.2.tar.bz2 && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xjf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/openal-soft-1.17.2.tar.bz2 && \
cd openal-soft-1.17.2 && \
cd build && \
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=${LOCALDESTDIR} -G "MSYS Makefiles" .. && \
make && \
make install

Test the OpenAL Soft installation: 

openal-info
Building smpeg2

smpeg is an mpeg file format library

Build and install smpeg by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget -c http://ingar.satgnu.net/devenv/mingw32/files/patches/smpeg-2.0.0-gcc6.patch && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
svn export svn://svn.icculus.org/smpeg/tags/release_2_0_0 smpeg-2.0.0 && \
cd smpeg-2.0.0 && \
patch -Np1 -i ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/smpeg-2.0.0-gcc6.patch && \
./autogen.sh && \
./configure --prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR} --enable-mmx  && \
make && \
make install

References:

Building libogg

libogg is an ogg bitstream format library

Build and install libogg by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget -c http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.3.2.tar.gz && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xzf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/libogg-1.3.2.tar.gz && \
cd libogg-1.3.2 && \
LDFLAGS='-mwindows' ./configure --prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR} --docdir=${LOCALDESTDIR}/share/doc/libogg-1.3.2 && \
make  && \
make install

Building libvorbis

libvorbis is a vorbis audio format library

Build and install libvorbis by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget -c http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.3.5.tar.gz && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xzf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/libvorbis-1.3.5.tar.gz && \
cd libvorbis-1.3.5 && \
LDFLAGS='-mwindows' ./configure --prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR} && \
make && \
make install

Building FLAC

FLAC is a Free Lossless Audio Codec.

Download and extract the FLAC source code by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget -c http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/flac/flac-1.3.2.tar.xz && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xJf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/flac-1.3.2.tar.xz && \
cd flac-1.3.2

Build and install the package (32-bit): 

./configure --disable-xmms-plugin --prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR} && \
make && \
make install

Build and install the package (64-bit): 

./configure --disable-xmms-plugin --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR} && \
make && \
make install
Building SDL2_mixer

SDL2_mixer is an audio support library for SDL2.

Build and install SDL_mixer by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget -c http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/release/SDL2_mixer-2.0.1.tar.gz && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xzf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/SDL2_mixer-2.0.1.tar.gz --exclude=Xcode && \
cd SDL2_mixer-2.0.1 && \
./configure --prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR} && \
make && \
make install
Building OpenSSL

OpenSSL is a library that implements the Secure Sockets Layer(SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols.

Download and extract the OpenSLL source code by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget -c ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.2l.tar.gz && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xzf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/openssl-1.0.2l.tar.gz && \
cd openssl-1.0.2l

Build the package (32-bit): 

./Configure --prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR} --openssldir=${LOCALDESTDIR}/etc/ssl --libdir=lib shared zlib-dynamic mingw && \
make

Build the package (64-bit): 

./Configure --prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR} --openssldir=${LOCALDESTDIR}/etc/ssl --libdir=lib shared zlib-dynamic mingw64 && \
make

Run the test suite to verify the build: 

make test

Install the package: 

make MANDIR=${LOCALDESTDIR}/share/man MANSUFFIX=ssl install
Building curl

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax

The curl source package can not be downloaded using the wget included with the MSYS. You have to download and save it to ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} manually.

Build and install curl by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xjf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/curl-7.54.0.tar.bz2 && \
cd curl-7.54.0 && \
CFLAGS="-mms-bitfields -mthreads" ./configure  --prefix=${LOCALDESTDIR} && \
make && \
make install

Building pdcurses

Public Domain Curses is an implementation of the curses library

Build and install pdcurses by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget --no-check-certificate -c https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/pdcurses/pdcurses/3.4/PDCurses-3.4.tar.gz  && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xzf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/PDCurses-3.4.tar.gz  && \
cd PDCurses-3.4  && \
cd win32  && \
cat mingwin32.mak | sed 's|\\exp\-|\/exp\-|g' > mingwin32.new  && \
mv mingwin32.new mingwin32.mak  && \
cat mingwin32.mak | sed 's|type|cat|g' > mingwin32.new  && \
mv mingwin32.new mingwin32.mak  && \
cat mingwin32.mak | sed 's|copy|cp|g' > mingwin32.new  && \
mv mingwin32.new mingwin32.mak  && \
cat mingwin32.mak | sed 's|del|rm|g' > mingwin32.new  && \
mv mingwin32.new mingwin32.mak  && \
make -f mingwin32.mak libs  && \
install pdcurses.a ${LOCALDESTDIR}/lib/libpdcurses.a  && \
make -f mingwin32.mak clean  && \
make -f mingwin32.mak DLL=Y libs  && \
install pdcurses.dll ${LOCALDESTDIR}/bin  && \
cd ..  && \
install curses.h ${LOCALDESTDIR}/include

Note: the sed lines replace the DOS commands in the install script with their UNIX equivalents.

Building freeglut

freeglut is a free implementation of the OpenGL Utility Toolkit.

Build and install freeglut by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget --no-check-certificate -c https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/freeglut/freeglut/3.0.0/freeglut-3.0.0.tar.gz && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xzf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/freeglut-3.0.0.tar.gz && \
cd freeglut-3.0.0 && \
mkdir build && \
cd build && \
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=${LOCALDESTDIR} -G "MSYS Makefiles" .. && \
make && \
make install
Building the Bullet Physics library

Bullet is a collision detection and physics library

Build and install bullet by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget --no-check-certificate -O bullet-2.86.1.tar.gz -c https://github.com/bulletphysics/bullet3/archive/2.86.1.tar.gz && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xzf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/bullet-2.86.1.tar.gz && \
cd bullet3-2.86.1 && \
mkdir build && \
cd build && \
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=${LOCALDESTDIR} -DINSTALL_LIBS:BOOL=ON -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON \
-DBUILD_UNIT_TESTS:BOOL=OFF -DBUILD_BULLET2_DEMOS:BOOL=OFF -DBUILD_OPENGL3_DEMOS:BOOL=OFF \
-DBUILD_EXTRAS:BOOL=OFF -G "MSYS Makefiles" .. && \
make && \
make install

References:

Building the PhysicsFS library

PhysicsFS is a library to provide abstract access to various archives.

Build and install PhysicsFS by executing the following commands: 

cd ${LOCALSOURCEDIR} && \
wget http://icculus.org/physfs/downloads/physfs-2.0.3.tar.bz2 && \
wget -c http://ingar.satgnu.net/devenv/mingw32/files/patches/physfs-2.0.3-size_t.patch  && \
cd ${LOCALBUILDDIR} && \
tar xjf ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/physfs-2.0.3.tar.bz2 && \
cd physfs-2.0.3 && \
patch -Np0 -i ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/physfs-2.0.3-size_t.patch && \
mkdir build && \
cd build && \
cmake -DCURSES_LIBRARY=${LOCALDESTDIR}/bin/pdcurses.dll \
-DZLIB_LIBRARY=${LOCALDESTDIR}/lib/libz.dll.a -DZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR=${LOCALDESTDIR}/include \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${LOCALDESTDIR} -G "MSYS Makefiles" .. && \
make && \
make install

Command explanation:

patch -Np0 -i ${LOCALSOURCEDIR}/physfs-2.0.3-size_t.patch
The 64-bit version does not build without patching.