Development

Contributing to the project

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Building Snappy Driver Installer

1. Prerequisites.

1.1 Download and install WinMerge.
1.2 Download and install Code::Blocks
1.3 Run Code::Blocks, select Yes, associate Code::Blocks with every supported type and click OK. You may close the application for now.
1.4 Download and install TortoiseSVN

2. Installation of GCC.

2.1 Download MinGW-w64
2.2 Run the downloaded executable and install it with the following settings.
Architecture: i686
Destination folder: c:\mingw

2.3 Run the downloaded executable and install it with the following settings.
Architecture: x86_64
Destination folder: c:\mingw

3.Installation of MSYS2.

3.1 Download MSYS2
3.2 Run the downloaded executable and install it into c:\msys32

4.Downloading Snappy Driver Installer source code.

4.1 Create a folder for the working copy.
4.2 Right click on the folder and choose SVN Checkout.
4.3 Enter URL: "http://svn.code.sf.net/p/snappy-driver-installer/code/trunk/"
and click OK.

5.Installing third-party libraries

5.1 Open the working copy folder and run external\configure.bat.
5.2 Select "Install all".

6. Compiling Snappy Driver Installer.

6.1 Open the project located at Project\myprg.workspace
6.2 Navigate the main menu Settings => Compiler.
6.3 Set Selected Compiler to GNU GCC Compiler.

6.4 Select Toolchain executables tab.
6.5 Remove the "mingw32-" from all fields.
Example: "mingw32-gcc.exe"->"gcc.exe".

6.6 Set Compiler's installation directory to c:\mingw\mingw32
6.7 Click Copy and replace the field with GCC_64.
6.8 Set Compiler's installation directory to c:\mingw\mingw64.
6.9 Click OK in order to close the dialog.
6.10 Press F9 to compile the application.

Removing the toolchain

Delete folder c:\mingw and c:\msys32.
Delete folder with Snappy Driver Installer which was created in chapter 4.
Uninstall Code::Blocks.