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The Windows build scripts currently don't have any ability to auto-discover tools, so you need to install all of the build dependencies to their default locations.
You will need to install git for Windows in order to obtain the LiveCode source code from GitHub.
You will need to download & install Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express (or Professional, if available).
In addition, you should install:
- Microsoft Speech SDK 5.1
- Microsoft Speech SDK 4.0 - this can be harder to find, but this link may work
The build currently requires the use of some tools from the Cygwin distribution of GNU and other open source tools.
You need to install Cygwin, along with the following additional packages:
- make
- bash
- bison
- flex
- curl
- zip
- unzip
The build process also requires:
- ActiveState Perl Community Edition
- Python 2.7 (Python 3 isn't supported)
Once you have checked out the source code from git, you can run:
cmd /C configure.bat
(Or just run configure.bat by double-clicking on it from Windows Explorer)
This will generate a set of Visual Studio project files in the build-win-x86/livecode directory.
To compile LiveCode, you can either open the build-win-x86/livecode/livecode.sln solution file in Visual Studio, or you can run:
cd build-win-x86
cmd /C ..\make.cmd
Note that if you are using Visual Studio 2010 Express you won't be able to compile the revbrowser extension.