ioquake3

Building ioquake3 on Windows msys2 (mingw)

Windows – msys2

How to compile ioquake3 using MinGW in a MSYS2 environment.

64-Bit Binaries

To build 64-bit binaries, follow these instructions:

1. Install msys2 from https://msys2.github.io/ , following the instructions there.It doesn’t matter which version you download, just get one appropriate for your OS.

2. Start “MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit” from the Start Menu.

3. Install mingw-w64-x86_64:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc

4. Install make:

pacman -S make

5. Grab latest ioq3 source code from github. Use git, or just grab https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3/archive/master.zip and unzip it somewhere.

6. Change directory to where you put the source and run make:Note that in msys2, your drives are linked as folders in the root directory: C:\ is /c/, D:\ is /d/, and so on.

cd /c/ioq3
make ARCH=x86_64

7. Find the executables and dlls in build/release-mingw64-x86_64 .

32-Bit Binaries

To build 32-bit binaries, follow these instructions:

1. Install msys2 from https://msys2.github.io/ , following the instructions there.It doesn’t matter which version you download, just get one appropriate for your OS.

2. Start “MSYS2 MinGW 32-bit” from the Start Menu.

3. Install mingw-w64-i686-gcc:

pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-gcc

4. Install make from msys:

pacman -S make

5. Grab latest ioq3 source code from github Use git, or just grab https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3/archive/master.zip and unzip it somewhere.

6. Change directory to where you put the source and run make:Note that in msys2, your drives are linked as folders in the root directory: C:\ is /c/, D:\ is /d/, and so on.

cd /c/ioq3
make ARCH=x86 WINDRES="windres -F pe-i386"

7. Find the executables and dlls in build/release-mingw32-x86 .