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To set up a development environment on Windows, there are a number of options.
- Download and install VMWare Player
- Download one of the pre-build Linux VMWare appliances (i.e. Ubuntu Desktop) from the VMWare Virtual Appliances Marketplace.
- Boot the appliance in the VMWare Player
- Follow the Linux steps inside the Virtual PC.
A hybrid option of native Windows / Linux environment is to install WSL2 on Windows 10 or 11 - follow instructions here: Linux-via-Windows-WSL2.
Once WSL2 and the build environment are setup, to build LK8000-PC.exe, from the root of the LK8000 project run:
make TARGET=PC
After your first successfull build, add the distrib option to your make command, copy the contents of the LK8000 folders structure to your Windows C or D drive and run LK8000-PC.exe from there:
make TARGET=PC distrib
cp -R ./Distrib/PC/LK8000 /mnt/c/_your_path_to_LK8000
For subsequent builds, you can copy only the executable:
cp ./LK8000-PC.exe /mnt/c
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/_your_path_to_LK8000/LK8000
With the WSL2 option you have setup the environment to build for other targets than Windows too of course, see Linux-via-Windows-WSL2 section.
Cygwin creates a *NIX-like environment on Windows.
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Download and set up Cygwin with at least the following packages and there dependencies:
- make
- mingw64-i686-gcc-g++
- zip
- gdb (version 9.2-1)
- wget
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install GeographicLib from source using script available in source:
./Scripts/install-mingw-w64-depends.sh-
make TARGET=PC distribshould result in an 'PC-install.zip'.
- Install MinGW, make sure to install the C++ compiler and the MinGW Developer toolkit.
- Start a MinGW shell.
- Download the LK8000 sources.
- Edit the LK8000 Makefile as follows:
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PC),y)
#TCPATH :=i386-mingw32-
TCPATH :=
and:
ifeq ($(CONFIG_PC),y)
#LDLIBS := -lmingw32 -lcomctl32 -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -ladvapi32 -lwinmm -lmsimg32 -lstdc++
LDLIBS := -Wl,-Bstatic -lstdc++ -lmingw32 -lcomctl32 -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -ladvapi32 -lwinmm -lmsimg32
This last change may not required anymore. If you still need to do this change, and if you're using LiveTracker then also add -lwsock32.
- Build LK8000-PC.exe with:
make TARGET=PC
Notes:
- With this setup, it's only possible to compile the PC version of LK8000.
- The resulting executable is slightly larger (~10%) than the released version.