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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: keilmillerjr on April 22, 2019, 03:13:31 PM

Title: Compile windows: error pkg-config command not found
Post by: keilmillerjr on April 22, 2019, 03:13:31 PM

I have a friend trying to compile attract from source on windows. I help remote using teamviewer. I never compile on windows so its new to me. We install msys2, successfully update the system and I confirmed all packages up to date. It seems like a stripped down version of arch.? Installed the required packages according to the wiki. Cloned and run make on attract, i get an error pkg-config command not found. I installed it manually from pacman. Still same error. Has anyone encountered this?

Title: Re: Compile windows: error pkg-config command not found
Post by: progets on April 22, 2019, 11:38:40 PM

Why? A Linux cross-compile is better because it stores many libraries within the executable. A msys2 compile will require a lot of .dll files in order for attract.exe to run. http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2278.msg15435#msg15435 (http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2278.msg15435#msg15435)

My advice is to just use the daily Windows build here (which is a cross-compile) http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2324.msg15751#msg15751 or cross-compile yourself.