Cmake on Windows¶

Ash's notes on how to build/compile flusspferd under windows. Since MSVC seems to have some issues with the C++ template/meta-fu we use, I decided to see if i couldn't get MinGW working instead.

Setup toolchain¶

First I cross-compiled and installed spidermonkey as documented on Spidermonkey on Windows.

• I used the MinGW distribution that comes with boost prebuilt: http://nuwen.net/mingw.html.

• iconv I got from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libiconv.htm - pick the "Developer files" zipfile, unpack it and copy the lib and include directories into C:\MinGW

Building flusspferd¶

set PATH=C:\mingw\bin;%PATH%
rem This is needed for the 'can we run SM tests' to find the mozjs.dll
set PATH=C:\spidermonkey\lib;%PATH%
cd build
cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" .. -DSPIDERMONKEY_ROOT=C:\spidermonkey ^
 -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:\mingw\ -DCMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM=C:\mingw\bin\make.exe ^
 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ^
 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\flusspferd
cd ..
make

Taadaa! Now just to work out how to get it to install cleanly.

Actually, the last time i built it (for 0.8) I used this invocation of cmake:

Y:\code\js\flusspferd\build>cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" .. -DSQLITE3_INCLUDE_DIRS=
C:\sqlite -DSQLITE3_LIBRARY_DIRS=C:\sqlite -DSPIDERMONKEY_ROOT=C:\spidermonkey -
DFLUSSPFERD_VERSION=0.8 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\flusspferd -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
=C:\mingw\ -DPLUGIN_SQLITE3=ON -DPLUGIN_GMP=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release