Using Code::Blocks on master on Windows

[nathiral]

Followed http://www.wiki.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?title=How_to_compile for Code::Blocks on Windows, but I’m getting an error: “ld.exe: cannot find -liconv.” No idea what that means. Googling around has shown me I might need to install Cygwin (which defeats the point of using Code::Blocks).

Any help?

Likewise, it would be great if the dependencies (libintl) were included in the master branch.

(It worked back for 0.6, but after the localization work started getting merge, I can’t get it to compile anymore… well, technically can’t get it to link anymore.)

Thanks in advance.

[GalenEvil]

I think the best we could do is provide links to the dependencies in a stickied file, or in the COMPILING file that comes with the source. You do not need cygwin to compile though. Here is what I have setup:

• In Settings>Compiler>Search Directories
  –Compiler:
  –++ C:\GnuWin32\include
  –++ C:\GnuWin32\share\gettext\intl

–Linker:
–++ C:\GnuWin32\lib
–++ C:\Users\Galen\Libraries\GetText\lib

• In Project>Build options>Linker Settings (Cataclysm)
  – Other Linker Settings:
  "-Wl,-stack,12000000,-subsystem,windows
  -static -lgdi32 -llibintl -llibiconv"

I also have “libiconv2.dll” and “libintl3.dll” in the project’s root directory.

May be a little overkill, but it works and I don’t care for now as long as it works

url for “libiconv” installer : http://superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gnuwin32/libiconv/1.9.2-1/libiconv-1.9.2-1.exe
url for “libintl” installer : http://hivelocity.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gnuwin32/libintl/0.14.4/libintl-0.14.4.exe
url for GetText runtime: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/gettext-runtime_0.18.1.1-1_win32.zip
url for GetText runtime-dev: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/gettext-runtime-dev_0.18.1.1-1_win32.zip

Hope these help

[Natures_Witness]

“Alive. It’s Alive! IT’S ALIVE!”

On a more serious note thank you!!! I’ve fought with this for WEEKS! Finally I can code (badly) again!
There’s a sticky here http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=1165.0 maybe you could add the stuff to it?
You could also do a pull request to add this to the compiling directions in COMPILING.md.
And the wiki has a page on compiling at http://www.wiki.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?title=How_to_compile

Extra thanks for the hotlinks to the files needed, that was the part I just couldn’t seem to figure out. Nobody mentioned the libiconv and libintl part, just the gettext.
I can’t thank you enough, I’ve been so bummed that I couldn’t get this working
We need to dig up Paul Revere, re-animate him, and get him to ride (lurch?) from town to town shouting this for all the world to know!!

…Okay maybe that’s a little much but this at LEAST needs a sticky somewhere easy to find for all the newbie coders (like me).