Prerequisites ============= 1. Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express or higher edition (http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-cpp-express) 2. Git for Windows (http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list) 3. CMake 2.8 or newer (http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html) 4. Python 2.x for Swiften build scripts (scons) (http://www.python.org) Libraries ========= 3. Swiften library (http://swift.im/git/swift) 4. Boost 1.48 or newer (http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.49.0/) 5. Google ProtoBuf library (http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/downloads/list) Environment =========== To create spectrum build environment do: 0. Create directory where we'll install all dependencies, e.g. C:\env-msvc-x64. Create C:\env-msvc-x64\bin and add it to %PATH%. Assuming you have git, python and cmake in %PATH%, launch "Visual Studio 2010 command prompt" or "Visual Studio 2010(x64) command prompt", depends on your target (Windows x86 or Windows x86_64). 1. unpack and build boost libraries: bootstrap.bat b2.exe --without-mpi --without-python b2.exe --without-mpi --without-python install --prefix=C:\env-msvc-x64 release 2. clone swift repository and build it. Don't forget to point it to our env directory: git clone git://swift.im/swift cd swift echo boost_includedir="c:/env-msvc-x64/include/boost-1_49" > config.py echo boost_libdir="c:/env-msvc-x64/lib" >> config.py scons.bat debug=no SWIFTEN_INSTALLDIR=C:\env-msvc-x64 force_configure=1 scons.bat debug=no SWIFTEN_INSTALLDIR=C:\env-msvc-x64 C:\env-msvc-x64 3. unpack and compile protobuf as described in its documentation. Run extract_includes.bat in vsprojects/ directory and move resulting vsprojects/include/google/ directory to our C:\env-msvc-x64\include Move protoc.exe to C:\env-msvc-x64\bin\ and libprotobuf.lib to C:\env-msvc-x64\lib 4. Install gtkmm Download installer from https://live.gnome.org/gtkmm/MSWindows and install gtkmm into C:\env-msvc-x64\ 5. Install libpurple headers Download http://www.pidgin.im/download/source/ , extract it and copy libpurple directory in C:\env-msvc-x64\include 6. You're ready! :) Clone libtransport into C:\env-msvc-x64\libtransport (You *must* clone it into this directory, because libtransport will try to find the dependencies in ../lib and ../include) Compile it as: set CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=C:\env-msvc-x64\include cmake . -G "NMake Makefiles" -DBOOST_INCLUDEDIR=../include/boost-1_49 -DBOOST_LIBRARYDIR=../lib -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\env-msvc-x64 -DGIT_EXECUTABLE="c:\Program Files (x86)\git\bin\git.exe" nmake