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This directory contains materials for building the win32 version of
gretl. The resources should work both for cross-compilation on
Linux, using the mingw32 cross-compiler, and for a "native" build on
MS Windows, using mingw plus msys (see mingw.org).
For additional resources (discussed below), see
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/winbuild/
If you want to build gretl for win32 yourself you will need to get
some additional files, and will probably need to modify some of the
settings in the Makefiles and scripts to suit your own setup.
A. Additional files:
1. GTK+ for win32 (with iconv and libintl): glib version 2.0 and also
gdk/gtk version 2.0. See http://www.gtk.org/download/windows.php .
2. libxml, libreadline, libpng, zlib and gmp
For all of the above, you need DLLs, import libraries (.a) and
headers. See
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
http://mingwrep.sourceforge.net/
for repositories of such packages. For convenience, I have assembled a
couple of archive files, namely mingw-extra.zip (build-time files:
headers and import libraries) and misc-dll.zip (runtime files for
distribution in the gretl package). See
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/winbuild/
(Sorry, as of 2015 these files are way outdated.)
3. The Inno Setup compiler for making a self-installing executable
See http://www.jrsoftware.org/
4. The gnuplot for win32 distribution.
See http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/pub/gretl/winbuild/
(Sorry, out of date)
B. Modifications to scripts:
1. config.mk: If you're doing a native build, change "BUILDTYPE = cross"
to read "BUILDTYPE = native". Whichever sort of build you're doing, you
may need to change some of the configuration settings in this file.
2. Makefile: Hopefully you won't need to change anything here.
3. mkwindist: this is a shell script which builds the gretl installer.
You may have to make some changes in the section marked "CONFIGURE HERE",
near the top of the script.
When you have everything in place you can do "make" to build gretl for
win32, and "make dist" to build the installer executable for gretl.
If all goes well, you should find gretl_install.exe in windist/Output.
Allin Cottrell
last updated October 2015
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