Progress report on compiling cores

General Development
#1

okay so I was able to compile almost every core in the mingw environment for windows 64 except for gen-plus and stella and some of the experimental cores (which is no surprise). I found a paste on paste bin that someone had left. It was a customized build-common.sh for windows and it helped me make it this far. http://pastebin.com/kwQnq5Q7 its very similar to the build-common but for some reason where that script had failed to compile even a single core this one built most of them no sweat with only a little tinkering.

both genplus and stella gave me the error

ld.exe: cannot find -lz

so if anyone knows of anything about this I could finish off these last two. I assume it is a missing dependency but so far I haven’t pinned it down.

once I get them all I will try to polish the script and release my environment to make it easier for others to build, hopefully.

#2

Yeah, that’s the zlib dependency you’re missing. You can get it from here (may require renaming): http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/zlib.htm

#3

still getting the same error only this time it also says

“skipping incompatible…”

multiple times and includes a list of all those dependencies I downloaded. I tried renaming with no luck

for whatever reason ld thinks all those dependencies you linked are “incompatible” I assume it is because I am building a 64 bit binary and those libs are 32 bit?

#4

@timde9 Possibly. You do need to match the bit-ness of the libraries to the toolchain you’re using.

#5

i compiled my own libz.a from the source linked above and it worked!

next step is revising the build script and then release to the public.