Building SPMod on Windows

Building SPMod on Windows

Instructions for building SPMod on Windows using MSVC.

Requirements

• Meson 0.44+
• Ninja (Bundled with meson)
• Git
• Visual Studio Build Tools

Prerequisites

1. Clone SPMod repository
   git clone --recursive https://github.com/Amaroq7/SPMod.git
2. Create folder inside SPMod repository called build

Building

1. Run x86 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2017

2. Change dir to your SPMod build dir
   cd <spmod_repo_dir>\build

3. Generate initial build files
   meson .. . --buildtype plain

4. (Optional) If you wish to build SPMod by linking it dynamically which results in smaller size
   *Warning* Requires to have Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017 installed
   default: false
   meson configure -D linktype=dynamic

5. (Optional) To change build type to release
   default: true (debug)
   meson configure -Dwindebug=false

6. Check configuration
   meson configure

7. If everything's ok, build
   ninja