build_windows.md

Building from Source for Windows

Building on Windows is complicated due to the required 3rd party libraries. As a result, the Windows build is done on Linux using a cross-compile and Wine to run the regression tests.
Alternatively, this procedure is also done on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on Windows

install dependencies

First, make sure that 32-bit builds work and install dependencies:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf pkg-config libtool mtools unzip zip xdelta3 wine wine-binfmt gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64

# I had to manually import the wine binfmt description on one install. You'll
# know this is an issue if running `fwup.exe` doesn't work.
sudo update-binfmts --import /usr/share/binfmts/wine

build executable

Then, run a static build using the mingw compiler:

export CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-w64-mingw32
export CC=$CROSS_COMPILE-gcc

./autogen.sh    # only necessary if building from a git source tree
./scripts/build_static.sh

When all tests passed (or skipped), you successfully get a fwup.exe on the current directory.

build nupkg for Chocolatey

If you'd like to build an fwup.*.nupkg for Chocolatey, try running the build_pkg.sh script. Chocolatey is tricky to install, so see scripts/ubuntu_install_chocolatey.sh if something goes wrong.

./scripts/build_pkg.sh

The script should exit successfully and you should have a fwup.*.nupkg Chocolatey package.
You may set $DISPLAY to avoid an error about Wine Mono is not installed.

To install a pre-release Chocolatey Package:

choco install fwup.*.nupkg -pre