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h1. Build Quassel on Windows Mingw

h2. Build Quassel with QT only

h2. Software Requirements

* "QT SDK":http://qt.nokia.com/downloads
* "DBGHELP Mingw":http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6292727/dbghelp/dbghelp.zip
* "CMake":http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html

h2. Installation

h3. Step 1: Install QT SDK

Download and install the QT SDK and select mingw to install with QT.

h3. Step 2: Install DBGHELP Mingw

If you are using mingw w64 skip this step

Download "DBGHELP Mingw":http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6292727/dbghelp/dbghelp.zip and extract it to your mingw root

h3. Step 3: Install CMake

h2. Checkout Quassel

* "git clone git://gitorious.org/quassel/quassel.git"

h2. Compile Quassel

* open a command line
* add mingw to your path (set PATH=%PATH%;'mingwdir')
* add cmake to your path (analog to mingw)
* add QT to yo your path, 'qt\version'\qt\bin
* switch to the directory where you checked out Quassel
* type "mkdir build"
* type "cd build"
* type "cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" .."
* type "mingw32-make"

h2. Build Quassel with Windows KDE

# got to the "Emerge Tutorial":http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/emerge
# check out emerge and set up the kdesettings.bat acording to the kde tutorial
# install quassel "emerge quassel-qt" or "emerge quassel" to build quassel with kdesupport, emerge will install all dependency's for you
# when emerge has finished all jobs, start quassel

The steps above would also be possible with msvc2008