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Windows Build (Qt5 & cmake)
Download the MSYS2 64bit installer from here: https://msys2.github.io/
Follow the instructions of that page otherwise install it using all the defaults (in c:\msys64)
Open the MSYS2 MINGW64 shell and install the packages required to build QLC+, by typing:
pacman -Su
pacman -S make automake autoconf libtool mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-libs mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-tools-git
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-libmad mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-libsndfile mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-flac mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-fftw mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-libusb mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-python-lxml
pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5-base mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5-multimedia mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5-serialport mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5-websockets mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5-script mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5-tools mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5-imageformats mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5-svg mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5-declarative mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5-quickcontrols mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5-quickcontrols2 mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5-3d mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-qt5-quick3d mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-nsis
These instructions suppose you have a folder called "projects" in C:. If it doesn't exist, create it and 'cd' into it.
If you wish to get the latest released QLC+ version download the source tarball from here:
https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus/releases/latest/
If you wish to get the very latest bleeding edge (but only if your intention is to do development or are just curious), download the GitHub client or use the command line:
git clone https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus.git
This will create a directory called qlcplus which will contain the latest sources from GIT repository. After you have made the initial clone and later wish to keep living on the bleeding egde, you can just update the sources (instead of making a new clone every time):
cd /c/projects/qlcplus
git pull
If you are a developer and want to contribute to QLC+, the default settings will build a debug version of the program. Please note that a debug version is bigger than a release one and might have worse performances.
If what you need is a production build, then you need to edit the main CMakeLists.txt file and change the line starting with
set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE "Release" ... )
Switch between Debug and Release depending on your needs.
To compile the DMX USB plugin, you need to:
Download the latest SDK from FTDI Driver page.
Extract the package contents for example to C:\projects\D2XXSDK
Edit plugins/dmxusb/src/CMakeLists.txt to point to the directory you picked:
FTD2XXDIR = C:/projects/D2XXSDK
Since the SDK provided by ftdichip.com is not compatible with the MSYS2 system, it is necessary to manually create a compatible libftd2xx.a file that will be used at build time:
cd /c/projects/D2XXSDK/amd64
gendef.exe - ftd2xx64.dll > ftd2xx.def
dlltool -k --input-def ftd2xx.def --dllname ftd2xx64.dll --output-lib libftd2xx.a
If you don't need the DMX USB plugin and would like to disable building it completely, edit <QLC>/plugins/CMakeLists.txt and put a hash (#) on the line that includes the plugin, like this:
# add_subdirectory(dmxusb)
Now compile QLC+ by typing:
cd /c/projects/qlcplus
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ..
make
make install
It will install QLC+ and all the required DLLs in C:\qlcplus.