This information pertains to building the Diamond Editor on Windows using MinGW.

Utilities

We recommend installing our distribution of MinGW-W64 which provides a C++ compiler and the majority of the POSIX utilities commonly used by developers.

MinGW Builds

Building Diamond

• Ensure the CopperSpice libraries are installed   CopperSpice Pre-Built Binaries
• Download Diamond source and unpack the files to [your_path]\diamond   Diamond Source

• Download Hunspell source and unpack the files to [your_path]\hunspell   Hunspell Source

  # Hunspell is built using Autotools

  # configure step

  mkdir build

  cd build

  ../configure --prefix=`pwd`/../hunspell_lib cxxflags=-o2

  # build step

  make install

  # copy files to diamond

  path=/c

  mkdir -p $path/diamond/hunspell_lib/bin

  mkdir -p $path/diamond/hunspell_lib/include

  mkdir -p $path/diamond/hunspell_lib/lib

  cp hunspell_lib/bin/*.dll $path/diamond/hunspell_lib/bin

  cp hunspell_lib/include/hunspell/* $path/diamond/hunspell_lib/include

  cp hunspell_lib/lib/*.dll.a $path/diamond/hunspell_lib/lib
• From a bash prompt in [your_path]\diamond run the following commands to build and install
  cmake -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=[path_to_copperspice] .

  ninja install