How to build FastDoom on Windows ?

[tigrouind]

There is a list of instructions in the README, however it's not clear what to download exactly.

• Open Watcom C version 2.0 : which version should be downloaded ? dos or win32 ?
• NASM Same as above
• DOS/32 : should dos32a.exe be copied somewhere ?
• makeall.bat : it's now replaced by .sh file

[viti95]

Yep, I have to update the build instructions.

All current develop is made on Linux or WSL2 (Windows). You need to install OpenWatcom v2, NASM, GNU Make and DOSBox-X.

Once everything is installed, these are the following steps to build:

1. Execute source env.sh
2. Build the executable:

• Single executable: build.sh <executable> <parameters> Where:
  "executable" is the name for the executable and "parameters" can be one of these:
  "-clean": cleans all generated OBJs,
  "-stub": adds the DOS/32 stub,
  "-debug": generates debugging exectable, needs dbgcfg.h to be adjusted to your needs
• All the executables (+ automatic DOS/32 stubs): buildall.sh
• Generate a full release zip: package.sh

For example, to build a fresh new executable:

./source env.sh
./build.sh fdoom.exe -clean -stub

[tigrouind]

Here is how to install everything under Ubuntu (can be run in Windows under with VirtualBox).
Small (2GB) and ready to be used vdi disk images exists.

DOSBox-X

can be installed from App Center

GNU Make

run sudo apt install build-essential

OpenWatcom V2 :

• open GitHub release page.
• download open-watcom-2_0-c-linux-x64
• mark file as executable (right click, properties)
• run sudo ./open-watcom-2_0-c-linux-x64
• use tab to navigate. Choose Next. Make sure "Full installation" is chosen.

NASM

• go to NASM homepage.
• Click on Downloads.
• Download nasm-2.16.03.tar.gz (or a later release).
• Extract archive
• run ./configure
• run make
• run sudo make install