RetroShare/WindowsMSys2_InstallGuide.md

##Compilation on Windows

###Qt Installation

Install Qt via: Qt Download

Use default options.
Add to the PATH environment variable

   ;C:\Qt\5.5\mingw492_32\bin;C:\Qt\Tools\mingw492_32\bin;C:\Qt\Tools\mingw492_32\opt\bin  

Depends on wich version of Qt you use.
Change build-all-mingw32make.bat with these values too if you don't use MSys2.

###MSYS2 INSTALLATION

Choose your MSYS2 installer here: MSYS2

Follow install procedure.
Don't forget to sync & Update pacman.

   pacman --needed -Sy bash pacman pacman-mirrors msys2-runtime  

Restart console

   pacman -Su  

Install all default programms

   pacman -S base-devel git mercurial cvs wget p7zip gcc perl ruby python2  

Choose only w64-i686 if you want only compilation in 32b architecture.

   pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain  

###Install other binutils:
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-miniupnpc mingw-w64-x86_64-miniupnpc
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-sqlite3 mingw-w64-x86_64-sqlite3
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-speex mingw-w64-x86_64-speex
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-opencv mingw-w64-x86_64-opencv
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-ffmpeg mingw-w64-x86_64-ffmpeg
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-libmicrohttpd mingw-w64-x86_64-libmicrohttpd
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-libxslt mingw-w64-x86_64-libxslt

Add MSYS2 to PATH environment variable depends your windows

   ;C:\msys64\mingw32\bin
   ;C:\msys32\mingw32\bin

###Git Installation

Install Git Gui or other client: Git Scm

Create a new directory named:

   C:\Development\GIT  

Right-click on it and choose: Git Bash Here

Paste this text on git console:
git clone https://github.com/RetroShare/RetroShare.git

###Last Settings

In QtCreator Option Git add its path: C:\Program Files\Git\bin and select "Pull" with "Rebase"

Open an MSys2 32|64 shell
Move to build_scripts:

   cd /c/Development/GIT/RetroShare/msys2_build_libs/  

###Compile missing library make

You can now compile RS into Qt Creator

For using, and debugging Plugins, you can use Symlinker to link the files in

   \build-RetroShare-Desktop_Qt_X_Y_Z_MinGW_32bit-Debug\plugins\PluginName\debug\*.dll  

to
%appdata%\RetroShare\extensions6