Building on Windows

This article is a stub and is based on the discussion in #119!

Building on windows requires mingw, currently it is only possible to use 32 bit version of mingw for qt5, so for now we are confined to 32 bit setup, even on 64 bit Windows.

• install mingw32/msys mingw32(because qt5 for mingw only has 32bit): http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/latest/download
• install Qt for mingw32 here: http://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/5.1/5.1.1/
• uninstall Go amd64 if it is installed and install Go386 instead: https://code.google.com/p/go/downloads/detail?name=go1.2rc2.windows-386.msi
• set GOARCH=386
• set CPATH=C:\MinGW\include;C:\Qt\Qt5.1.1\5.1.1\mingw48_32\include;C:\Qt\Qt5.1.1\5.1.1\mingw48_32\include\QtCore\5.1.1\QtCore
• set LIBRARY_PATH=C:\MinGW\lib;C:\Qt\Qt5.1.1\5.1.1\mingw48_32\lib
• set PATH=C:\Qt\Qt5.1.1\5.1.1\mingw48_32\bin;C:\MinGW\bin;%path% (!important, put Qt's path in front of MinGW's path otherwise it'll complain libstdc++-6.dll missing as Qt's path contains a different libstd++-6.dll)
• download pkg-config from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pkgconfiglite/files/ and select the latest version and extract to c:\MinGW\bin
• download glib dev version from http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php and extract content to c:\MinGW
• install python3 win32
• download pexport in msys terminal (How?)
• Use pexports to create a static linking library from python dll pexports /c/Windows/SysWOW64/python33.dll >py33.def dlltool -D python33.dll -d py33.def -l libpython33.a copy libpython33.a to c:/mingw/lib

install libffi in msys terminal and mount c:/mingw32 /mingw ./configure --prefix=/mingw make make install

change cgo.go:

// #cgo CFLAGS: -Ic:/python33/include // #cgo LDFLAGS: -Lc:/Python33/libs -Lc:/mingw/lib -ldl -lpython33 // #cgo pkg-config: libffi

run go test from gopy as stated in regular build instructions.