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Building mkvtoolnix 5.4.0 on Windows
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There is currently only one supported way to build MKVToolNix for
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Windows: on Linux using a mingw cross compiler. It is known that you
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can also build it on Windows itself with the mingw gcc compiler, but
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that's not supported officially as I don't have such a setup myself.
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Earlier versions could still be built with Microsoft's Visual Studio /
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Visual C++ programs, and those steps were described here as
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well. However, current MKVToolNix versions require many features of
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the new C++11 standard that even the newest C++ compilers from
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Microsoft simply don't support. Therefore the old project files that
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enabled building with Visual Studio 8 or newer were removed.
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Section 1 -- Building with a mingw cross compiler
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1.1. Preparations
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You will need:
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- a mingw cross compiler
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- roughly 2 GB of free space available
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Earlier versions of this document described in painful details how to
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build each library. Luckily there's the "mingw-cross-env" project at
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http://mingw-cross-env.nongnu.org/ that provides an easy-to-use way of
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setting up everything we need.
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First, download a release or the current development version; see
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http://mingw-cross-env.nongnu.org/#latest-release to to retrieve
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them. Then unpack the release.
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The rest of this guide assumes that you've unpacked mingw-cross-env
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into the directory $HOME/mingw-cross-env.
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1.2. Automatic build script
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mkvtoolnix contains a script that can download, compile and install
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all required libraries into the directory $HOME/mingw-cross-env.
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If the script does not work or you want to do everything yourself
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you'll find instructions for manual compilation in section 2.3.
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1.2.1. Script configuration
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The script is called winbuild/setup_cross_compilation_env.sh. It
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contains the following variables that can be adjusted to fit your
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needs:
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TARGET=i686-pc-mingw32
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The target specification for the standard configure scripts.
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INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/mingw-cross-env
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Base installation directory
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PARALLEL=
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Number of processes to execute in parallel. Will be set to the number
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of cores available if left empty.
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1.2.2. Execution
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From the mkvtoolnix source directory run:
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./winbuild/setup_cross_compilation_env.sh
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If everything works fine you'll end up with a configured mkvtoolnix
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source tree. You just have to run 'drake' afterwards.
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1.3. Manual installation
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First you will need the mingw-cross-env build scripts. Get them by
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downloading them (see above) and unpacking them into
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$HOME/mingw-cross-env.
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Next, build the required libraries:
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cd $HOME/mingw-cross-env
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make gcc w32api mingwrt gettext boost bzip2 curl file flac libiconv \
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lzo ogg pthreads vorbis wxwidgets zlib
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Append the installation directory to your PATH variable:
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export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/mingw-cross-env/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin
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Finally, configure mkvtoolnix:
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cd $HOME/path/to/mkvtoolnix-source
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./configure \
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--host=i686-pc-mingw32 \
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--with-boost=$HOME/mingw-cross-env/usr/i686-pc-mingw32 \
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--with-wx-config=$HOME/mingw-cross-env/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/i686-pc-mingw32-wx-config
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If everything works then build it:
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./drake
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You're done.
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