How do you actually setup this on windows?

[starjurrassic]

Hello there. Unlike the regular nuked sc 55 emulator, this fork does not have any releases. Which makes it difficult for me to install the forked emulator. The only way for me to install this is to compile and build it, and the guide to build this on windows is a bit vague (at least to me). So i have to search the internet, which quickly became increasingly more complex (i am here to install an SC-55 emulator, not to create games after all). So can someone tell me a simple way to setup the emulator without having to go through a trial and error process (or atleast a step by step guide on the compiling process)? As you might have noticed from all of this, im just a simple windows user who does not know anything about compiling and building programs.

[jcmoyer]

Hi, I added a release for 64-bit Windows 10 and above. I won't be able to provide builds for other platforms for now.

Instructions to use are the same as upstream so please consult the original readme for those. The only difference is that some command line parameters use double hyphen -- instead of single hyphen - like most other programs.

[blixabloxa]

Hi jcmoyer,

Thanks for building a Windows release. My Windows Defender blocks the download because it detects a virus. Do you know what that could be?

[starjurrassic]

I think its just a false positive. Is there an allow option on your windows defender? (I didnt experience this block problem)

[blixabloxa]

Yes, I also think it's a false positive. I'll workout how to bypass it.

[jcmoyer]

Not sure why that would be, but I'm not really surprised either because it's not a signed executable. Here's the script I used to package the release in case you want to try building it yourself.

#!/usr/bin/sh

TRIPLET=$(gcc -dumpmachine)
VERSION=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)
INSTALL_DIR=Nuked-SC55-$TRIPLET-$VERSION
ZIP_NAME=$INSTALL_DIR.zip

rm -f CMakeCache.txt
rm -rf $INSTALL_DIR

cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$INSTALL_DIR -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ -static"
cmake --build .
cmake --install .

strip $INSTALL_DIR/bin/nuked-sc55.exe
strip $INSTALL_DIR/bin/nuked-sc55-render.exe

cp "/mingw64/bin/SDL2.dll" $INSTALL_DIR/bin
cp ../LICENSE $INSTALL_DIR
cp ../README.md $INSTALL_DIR

zip -r $ZIP_NAME $INSTALL_DIR

[blixabloxa]

Thanks jcmoyer,

I manged to disable Windows Defender temporarily to download it and whitelist it.

I've built this on Linux successfully, but not on Windows. I may try to do it with your Windows script as a learning exercise. Thanks again!