Windows Build

[GoobyCorp]

Is there any chance that this will get a Windows build option? I saw mingw-w64 but I'm pretty sure the gcc patches would have to be ported to that and I have no experience with that at all.

[Swizzy]

Figured i'd post some instructions for how to set this up on Windows using WSL;

1. Install WSL2 ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install ) - pretty much "wsl --install" in a CMD window with admin privileges
2. Reboot windows - This step is important
3. Install Debian using the command wsl --install Debian
4. Follow the instructions to create a UNIX username - in this example i'm going with "xenon"
5. You should now be logged in to the debian instance - if not, just run wsl -d Debian and you'll enter Debian.
6. Update your debian install before doing anything to make sure you're on the latest version using the following command: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y, you'll need to enter the password you setup in step 4 above now.
7. Install all the prerequisites using sudo to become root: using the following command: sudo apt-get install -y flex bison gcc-multilib libgmp3-dev libmpfr-dev libmpc-dev texinfo git-core build-essential wget file
8. CD into a directory where you can work, personally i used a folder named "libxenon" directly on my C drive - to navigate there use cd /mnt/c/ then you can create the folder using the command mkdir libxenon, if you don't do this in Linux, the permissions will be messed up, to fix that run chown -R xenon:xenon . when in the directory you want to fix the permissions for, "-R" makes it recursive, and "xenon:xenon" sets the owner to the user "xenon" and the group "xenon", the . at the end is important and is what tells chown that you want this to apply to the current directory you're in, otherwise you need to specify the path you want to apply this to.
9. Clone the libxenon repo using the command git clone https://github.com/Free60Project/libxenon.git, you can also do this outside of Linux if you prefer, but you may have to fix the permissions as described above.
10. cd into the folder with the build script; cd libxenon/toolchain
11. run the command to build the toolchain first; sudo ./build-xenon-toolchain toolchain. this may also take a while so be prepared for that.
12. Now you can edit your bashrc found at "~/.bashrc", personally i use nano for this (install using sudo apt-get install nano), you can then use nano ~/.bashrc to edit it. at the end add the following 2 lines:
    export DEVKITXENON="/usr/local/xenon"
export PATH="$PATH:$DEVKITXENON/bin:$DEVKITXENON/usr/bin"
    If you used nano, now you can press Ctrl + X on your keyboard followed by Y and Enter
13. Now you need to exit out of debian, just type exit and hit enter
14. Log back into Debian using the command wsl - d Debian, you can now complete the rest of the setup by navigating to the toolchain folder where you have the Libxenon repo for example cd /mnt/c/libxenon/libxenon/toolchain, now build libxenon using sudo ./build-tool-chain libxenon

voila - you now have Libxenon setup and easily accessible on Windows