Howtos - Hack on Windows 7, 8 and 10¶

You need to:

1. Install Git for Windows (needed by Tortoise Git) : https://gitforwindows.org/.
   1. Do not install in "Program files" or in a path which contains spaces. We recommend to install in C:\git.
2. Install Tortoise Git : http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/.
3. Install Qt and Qt Creator from https://www.qt.io/download-qt-installer
   1. Check the latest version of MinGW 64 bits during installation
   2. Add paths to MinGW bin: C:\Qt\Tools\mingw730_64\bin to your path environment variable.
4. Install Cygwin from https://cygwin.com/install.html
   1. Check automake and libtool
5. Install protobuf library source
   1. Download and uncompress the latest release from : https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases (for example: protobuf-cpp-3.11.4.zip)
   2. Rename the directory to protobuf
   3. Launch "Cygwin64 Terminal" and go to /cygdrive/c/protobuf then type :
      1. export MAKE=mingw32-make
      2. ./configure CXXFLAGS=-O2 --enable-shared=no
      3. mingw32-make
   4. Add to your path these directories : C:\protobuf\src\;C:\protobuf\src\.libs to reach executable protoc and library libprotobuf.a.
6. Git clone the repository :
   1. git://github.com/Ummon/D-LAN.git if you just want clone the repository (read-only).
   2. git@github.com:Ummon/D-LAN.git if you have a full access (read+write).
7. Generate the C++ code from the Protocol Buffer files (only for version 1.1)
   1. Open a Bash command line, you can use the shortcut "Git Bash" installed with git
   2. Go to the directory "D-LAN/application"
   3. Run the shell script file 1.generate_protos_cpp to generate the .h and .cc files in the directory Protos.
8. Set up Qt Creator
   1. Launch Qt Creator
   2. Open the projects d-lan/application/GUI.pro and d-lan/application/Core.pro
   3. For both projects:
      1. Uncheck Shadow build in the Build Settings tab.
      2. Add the argument debug -f Makefile-Core to Make for the build configuration Debug and release -f Makefile-Core for the build configuration Release. Replace 'Core' by 'GUI' for the GUI project.
   4. Add -e as an argument and check¹ Run in terminal in the Run Settings tab of the Core project.
   5. You can now compile and run the two projects.

¹ Without this option the Core cannot be launched in debug mode (stderr cannot be used).