How to build 64-bit Lix for Windows =================================== If you get stuck at any point, don't hesitate to contact me (Simon N.) and ask me for help: E-Mail: s.naarmann@gmail.com IRC: irc.quakenet.org #lix, I'm SimonN or SimonNa Issues: https://github.com/SimonN/LixD/issues Forums: lemmingsforums.net, I'm Simon, we have boards for Lix Web: https://www.lixgame.com Install LDC and dub ------------------- Download the D compiler LDC, version 1.21.0 or newer; prefer the download that ends in -windows-multilib.exe: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases The download that ends in -windows-multilib.7z will also work, it's an alternative. LDC versions 1.25 and older will offer only the .7z. I do not support LDC versions older than 1.21.0. If very new versions give you errors when building Lix, tell me. On Win 7 or on Wine 6.4 and older, LDC 1.25 and 1.26 don't work due to linker problems; these LDC versions are still good on Wine 6.7+, Win 8, or Win 10 are fine. If you want to use DMD instead of LDC, see below at "Building with DMD". * If you downloaded -windows-multilib.exe: Run it. This is an installer. The default choices are okay for Lix. The installer will add LDC's bin/ directory to your PATH variable automatically. * If you downloaded -windows-multilib.7z: Extract this archive, e.g., with 7-Zip from https://www.7-zip.org/download.html ..., to a directory of your choice. We will refer to the extracted directory as the LDC directory. Add LDC's bin/ subdirectory to your Windows PATH variable; for instructions, see addtopath.txt in the same directory of this file, win64.txt. Verify that LDC and dub work ---------------------------- Windows LDC already ships with a Windows version of dub, the D package manager. To verify that both LDC and dub are installed properly: 1. Open a command prompt anywhere. 2. Run "dub" or "ldc2" without quotes. 3. Check that both programs are found and output something different than "is not a recognized program or command". Install Allegro 5 and enet -------------------------- I have prepared all necessary DLLs in a single archive tailored to the LDC multilib release. Download this: https://www.lixgame.com/dow/lix-dlls-libs-win64.zip Extract this into your LDC directory. You will get new DLLs in bin/ and new LIBs in lib64/. Proceed to the next section, "Get the Lix source". If you use another release of LDC, especially the "-windows-x64.7z" release, then the lib directory might be called differently than lib64/, e.g., just lib/. Copy into your lib directory everything from my extracted lib64/. If my DLLs or LIBs fail, or if you prefer another way to get the Allegro 5 and enet DLLs and LIBs: You can build these libraries from source, or you can get the Allegro DLLs and LIBs from its NuGet binary package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Allegro Click Download on the right. Unzip the downloaded file allegro*.nupkg, it is a normal zip archive. Go to build/native/v141, and you'll see Allegro .lib and .dll files for win32 (= 32-bit) and for x64 (= 64-bit). You don't need any files with "debug" in their name. Copy the other DLLs to LDC's bin/ dir. Copy the other LIBs to LDC's lib64/ dir or the respective dir name for releases other than multilib. Match the filenames to what I provided in my archive. Get the Lix source ------------------ * If you have git: Clone Lix's repository: git clone https://github.com/SimonN/LixD.git * If you don't have git: Download Lix's source as a zip archive here: https://github.com/SimonN/LixD/archive/master.zip Extract to a directory of your choice. We will refer to the extracted directory as the Lix directory. Compile Lix ----------- Doubleclick win-build.bat in the Lix directory to build the game. If successful, you will get an executable ./bin/lix.exe, run it to start Lix. If Lix runs, proceed to the next section, "Add music". If you prefer the command line, try one of these commands: dub build --compiler=ldc2 dub build -b release --compiler=ldc2 The first command builds a debugging version that builds faster and produces better error messages in case of a crash, but runs slower. The second command is the same as the batch file win-build.bat. This builds a release version that takes longer to build, but runs faster. Non-fatal errors during play will be written to ./user/log.txt. Add music --------- Lix has music, but the music is not in version control. I encourage you to add the music for a more complete experience. To get the music, download: https://www.lixgame.com/dow/lix-music.zip Extract this into Lix's directory, you'll get a subdirectory ./music/. You are done! Building with DMD ----------------- DMD is an alternative D compiler. It is possible to build a 64-bit version of Lix with DMD instead of LDC as well, even though LDC is recommended for better playing performance. DMD version 2.094.1 works, older versions might work but aren't guaranteed to work, and newer versions should work; tell me if a newer version doesn't build Lix. To build Lix with DMD, adjust the following steps in above build instructions: Getting compiler and dub: Download DMD, the Digital Mars D compiler: https://dlang.org/download During the installation, when asked: * Add the programs to PATH. You want to call them from the command line later. * You don't need to add anything to the start menu. * You don't need extra 64-bit support (DMD works self-contained since 2.079) * You don't need D1 support. DMD already ships with dub, the D package manager. If you only need to build Lix for 64-bit architecture: Download the Allegro 5 and enet DLLs and LIBs that I prepared: https://www.lixgame.com/dow/lix-dlls-libs-win64.zip Extract this into your dmd2/windows/ directory. You will get new DLLs in bin/ and new LIBs in lib64/. Proceed to the next section, "Get the Lix source". Otherwise, if you want to setup DMD to build Lix for both 32-bit _and_ 64-bit: Edit Windows's/Wine's PATH variable (for instructions, see addtopath.txt in the same directory of this file, win64.txt, but instead of adding LDC's directory, do the following): Append a semicolon to the PATH variable, then append the full path to DMD's windows\bin64 directory. Reason for this manual adding to PATH: DMD's installer adds only the 32-bit directory to the PATH, but we want the separate 64-bit directory in the PATH, too, so that the DLLs will later be found when running Lix. Download the Allegro 5 and enet DLLs and LIBs that I prepared: https://www.lixgame.com/dow/lix-dlls-libs-win64.zip Put the Allegro 64-bit DLLs and the enet 64-bit DLL into your D installation's dmd2/windows/bin64/ directory. Put the *.lib files into your D installation's dmd2/windows/lib64/ directory. Get the Lix source as described in the section "Get the Lix source" above. Compile Lix: Use one of the following command lines, depending on what kind of build you want. The release build (second command) takes longer but will have better performance during play. dub build --compiler=dmd --arch=x86_64 dub build -b release --compiler=dmd --arch=x86_64 Get help -------- If you run into any kind of roadblock, don't be shy and ask: E-Mail: s.naarmann@gmail.com IRC: irc.quakenet.org #lix, I'm SimonN or SimonNa Issues: https://github.com/SimonN/LixD/issues Forums: lemmingsforums.net, I'm Simon, we have boards for Lix Web: https://www.lixgame.com