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Building MKVToolNix 88.0 for 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 C++11 and C++14 standards which Microsoft's compilers have had
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spotty support for for a long time. Additionally the author doesn't
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use Visual C++ himself and couldn't provide project files for it.
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# 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 4 GB of free space available
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Luckily there's the [M cross environment project](http://mxe.cc/)
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that provides an easy-to-use way of setting up the cross-compiler
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and all required libraries.
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MXE is a fast-changing project. In order to provide a stable basis for
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compilation, the author maintains his own fork. That fork also includes
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a couple of changes that cause libraries to be compiled only with the
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features required by MKVToolNix saving compilation time and deployment
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space. In order to retrieve that fork, you need `git`. Then do the
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following:
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git clone https://gitlab.com/mbunkus/mxe $HOME/mxe
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The rest of this guide assumes that you've unpacked MXE
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into the directory `$HOME/mxe`.
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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 `$HOME/mxe`.
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If the script does not work or you want to do everything yourself,
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you'll find instructions for manual compilation in section 1.3.
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### 1.2.1. Script configuration
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The script is called `packaging/windows/setup_cross_compilation_env.sh`.
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It contains the following variables that can be adjusted to fit your
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needs:
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ARCHITECTURE=64
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The architecture (64-bit vs 32-bit) that the binaries will be built
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for. The majority of users today run a 64-bit Windows, therefore 64 is
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the default. If you run a 32-bit version of Windows, change this to 32.
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INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/mxe
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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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./packaging/windows/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 `rake` afterwards.
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## 1.3. Manual installation
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First you will need the MXE build scripts. Get them by
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downloading them (see section 1.1. above) and unpacking them into
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`$HOME/mxe`.
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Next, build the required libraries (change `MXE_TARGETS` to
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`i686-w64-mingw32.static` if you need a 32-bit build instead of a 64-bit
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one, and increase `JOBS` if you have more than one core):
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cd $HOME/mxe
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make MXE_TARGETS=x86_64-w64-mingw32.static MXE_PLUGIN_DIRS=plugins/gcc9 \
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JOBS=2 \
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gettext libiconv zlib boost file flac lzo ogg pthreads vorbis cmark \
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libdvdread qtbase qttranslations
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Append the installation directory to your `PATH` variable:
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export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/mxe/usr/bin
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hash -r
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Finally, configure MKVToolNix (the `host=…` spec must match the
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`MXE_TARGETS` spec from above):
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cd $HOME/path/to/mkvtoolnix-source
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host=x86_64-w64-mingw32.static
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qtbin=$HOME/mxe/usr/${host}/qt5/bin
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./configure \
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--host=${host} \
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--enable-static-qt \
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--with-moc=${qtbin}/moc --with-uic=${qtbin}/uic --with-rcc=${qtbin}/rcc \
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--with-boost=$HOME/mxe/usr/${host}
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If everything works, build it:
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rake
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You're done.
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