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The Windows build scripts currently don't have any ability to auto-discover tools, so you need to install all of the build dependencies to their default locations.
You will need to install git for Windows in order to obtain the LiveCode source code from GitHub.
You need a set of Visual Studio build tools and SDKS. You can use either:
-
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Build Tools, which contains only the compilers and libraries, without any user interface; select everything in the installer
-
An appropriate edition of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 IDE
In addition, you should install
Microsoft Speech SDK 5.1
in order to allow you to compile the revspeech external.
Note : If Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017, you will need to add C++ support and support for the Windows 8.1 SDK to your Visual Studio installation as these features are currently not installed by default with Visual Studio 2017 and are necessary for building LiveCode.
The build currently requires the use of some tools from the Cygwin distribution of GNU and other open source tools.
You need to install Cygwin, along with the following additional packages:
- make
- bash
- bison
- flex
- curl
- zip
- unzip
The build process also requires:
- ActiveState Perl Community Edition
- Python 2.7 (Python 3 isn't supported)
Once you have checked out the source code from git, you can run:
cmd /C configure.bat
(Or just run configure.bat by double-clicking on it from Windows Explorer)
This will generate a set of Visual Studio project files in the build-win-x86/livecode directory.
If you installed the Visual Studio IDE, you can open the
build-win-x86/livecode/livecode.sln solution file in Visual Studio,
and build LiveCode from there.
If you installed the Visual Studio build tools, you can run:
cd build-win-x86
set BUILD_PLATFORM=win-x86
cmd /C ..\make.cmd