Re: Can anyone tell me how to compile on windows (using visual studio for .exe file)?

jonghwan Choi wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I could not find the answer on the mailing list.
> I am sorry to bother you.
>
> To make a windows binary files, I followed the steps below.
>
> 1. git clone smartmontools source

All possible git mirrors are independent projects and may be outdated.

Checkout from smartmontools SVN or download latest source tarball from 
builds.smartmontools.org.
https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Download#InstalllatestunreleasedcodefromSVNrepository


> 2. open the *.sln file in os_win32 via visual studio
> 3. run build
> 4. config.h : No such file or directory file.
>

This requires a run of "make config-vc14" first in a POSIX environment.

See [10] in INSTALL file (somewhat outdated, as it still assumes VC10).


> How do I create binary files for windows in windows environment?

Smartmontools is open source, therefore the recommended way to build 
uses open source tools :-)

For 64-bit version, run this on Windows+Cygwin, Debian, Ubuntu, etc with 
MinGW-w64 packages installed:

$ ./configure --build=$(./config.guess) \
               --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 \

$ make

All releases and daily builds for Windows are cross-compiled under Linux.

Thanks,
Christian


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