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Installation on Windows 7/8.1

These are installation steps for users who do not have access to WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), or people who just prefer not to use it. For WSL, follow the Linux instructions instead.

Setting up MSYS2 and keeping it up to date

Go visit the MSYS2 website and go through the installer. Follow the instructions carefully to make sure the packages are up to date.

Install required packages

Open up a "MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit" terminal and enter the following:

  • pacman -S make git mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain texinfo tar wget

Note: All of these instructions should also work in the 32-bit terminal if you replace x86_64 with i686.

If you plan on using SGDK, you need Java 1.8 or newer. It's a bit annoying to set up, but basically:

  1. Download and run the installer from: https://www.java.com/en/download/
  2. Take note of where it gets installed, and add to ~/.bash_profile:
  • export JAVA_HOME="/C/Program Files/Java/jre*/"
  • export PATH="${PATH}:${JAVA_HOME}/bin/"
  1. Run source ~/.bash_profile or just close and reopen the terminal

If you plan on using sik-tools:

  • pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-libpng

If you plan on using flamewing-tools:

  • pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-boost

Start compiling targets

Check the Target Reference