TPP:Building Windows-native binaries with Mingw

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Original author

Natalie Tasman, May 2009 TPP 4.2.1

Introduction

This guide is for software developers who might wish to build the TPP on their own system for building and testing modification to the code. TPP users do not have to build the system on their computer, and can simply use the pre-build Windows TPP installer.

This is a very rough guide, and the addition of any more detail and/or screenshots would be welcome.

I abbreviate the Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2005 tools as MSVC.

MSVC Requirement

For a complete build you need to also build the converters under MSVC. Please see that page for more information.

Getting the source code

Please see TPP:Getting the sourcecode for a windows build

Where are the Mingw build files created?

<tpp>/build/mingw