MinGW: Building aMule for Windows

aMule is a peer-to-peer file-sharing program for Windows, Linux, Mac and *BSD. aMule can be used to share files with users of eMule. This post describes the steps I took in building aMule for Windows.

1. First, install MinGW as shown in this post. Download pkg-config.exe and save it in /mingw/bin:

   
   
   
2. Install Strawberry Perl or ActivePerl. If you've already unpacked aMule source, open src/libs/ec/file_generator.perl with a text editor and modify the first line. If ActivePerl is installed:
   

   #!/c/Perl/bin/perl

   
   

   If Strawberry Perl is installed:

   
   

   #!/c/strawberry/perl/bin/perl

   
   
   
3. Download the Zlib source (zlib125.zip) and unpack it with unzip or 7zip. Then, compile Zlib like this:
   
   

   cd zlib-1.2.5/ 
   make -f win32/Makefile.gcc

   
   

   Manually copy the files as follows:

   
   

   cp -iv zlib1.dll /mingw/bin
   cp -iv zconf.h zlib.h /mingw/include
   cp -iv libz.a /mingw/lib
   cp -iv libzdll.a /mingw/lib/libz.dll.a

   
   
   

4. Build wxMSW statically and monolithically as shown in this post. Alternatively, you can also build wxMSW as shared library.

   
   
   
5. Download Crypto++ source (cryptopp560.zip) and extract it into a new folder:
   

   mkdir cryptopp
   cd cryptopp
   unzip ../cryptopp560.zip

   
   

   Prior to compiling Crypto++, I changed the line that define PREFIX at the beginning of GNUmakefile:

   
   

   # Default prefix for make install
   
   ifeq ($(PREFIX),)
   
   PREFIX = /mingw
   
   endif

   
   

   Then, I compiled Crypto++ with this command:

   
   

   make -f GNUmakefile

   
   

   Compile stopped on rijndael.cpp with the error: 'alloca' was not declared in this scope. So I added #include <malloc.h> to the beginning of rijndael.cpp and resumed make -f GNUmakefile. After make finished, I installed Crypto++ by typing:

   
   

   make -f GNUmakefile install

   
   

   The following files are installed under /mingw:

   
   

   bin/cryptest.exe
   
   include/cryptopp/
   
   lib/libcryptopp.a

   
   
6. Download GeoIP source from here. Compile GeoIP like this:
   
   

   ./configure --prefix=/mingw LDFLAGS="-L/mingw/lib -lws2_32 -lz"
   
   make
   
   make install

   
   

   The following files are installed.

   
   

   include/GeoIP.h
   include/GeoIPCity.h
   /include/GeoIPUpdate.h
   lib/libGeoIP.a
   lib/libGeoIP.la
   lib/libGeoIPUpdate.a
   lib/libGeoIPUpdate.la

   
   

   I created GeoIP.dll as follows:

   
   

   cd libGeoIP/.libs
   
   mkdir ws2_32
   
   cd ws2_32
   
   ar x /mingw/lib/libws2_32.a
   
   cd ..
   
   dllwrap --export-all-symbols --add-stdcall-alias -o GEOIP.DLL --dllname
   GEOIP.DLL GeoIP.o GeoIPCity.o regionName.o timeZone.o ws2_32/dkrgs00086.o ws2_32/dkrgs00082.o ws2_32/dkrgs00081.o -L/mingw/lib -lws2_32 -lz

   
   

   Then, I created an import library for GeoIP.dll like this:

   
   

   echo EXPORTS > geoip.def
   
   nm GEOIP.DLL | grep ' T _' | sed 's/.* T _//' | grep -i geoip >> geoip.def
   
   dlltool --def geoip.def --dllname GEOIP.DLL --output-lib libgeoip.dll.a

   
   

   Move GEOIP.DLL to /mingw/bin and libgeoip.dll.a to /mingw/lib. Then, modify /mingw/lib/libGeoIP.la as necessary.

   
   
   

   # The name that we can dlopen(3).
   dlname='../bin/GEOIP.DLL'
   
   # Names of this library.
   library_names='libgeoip.dll.a'

   
   
   

7. Build GNU regex library as shown in this post.

   
   
   
8. Get the latest libiconv source (libiconv-1.13.1.tar.gz) and compile it like this:
   

   ./configure --prefix=/mingw --disable-shared
   make
   make install

   
   

   Then, get the latest gettext source (gettext-0.17.tar.gz) and compile it as follows:

   
   

   ./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-threads=win32 --enable-relocatable --disable-shared
   
   cd gettext-runtime
   
   make
   
   make install

   
   
   

9. Get the aMule source and unpack it. I compiled aMule like this:

   
   

   ./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-geoip --enable-amulecmd --enable-alc --enable-alcc --enable-nls --enable-rpath --enable-optimize --disable-debug
   
   make
   
   make install

   
   

   aMule installs the following files under /mingw:

   
   

   bin/amule.exe
   bin/autostart-xas
   bin/ed2k.exe
   lib/xchat/plugins/xas.pl
   man/de/man1/amule.1
   man/de/man1/ed2k.1
   man/de/man1/xas.1
   man/es/man1/amule.1
   man/es/man1/ed2k.1
   man/es/man1/xas.1
   man/eu/man1/amule.1
   man/eu/man1/ed2k.1
   man/eu/man1/xas.1
   man/fr/man1/amule.1
   man/fr/man1/ed2k.1
   man/hu/man1/amule.1
   man/hu/man1/ed2k.1
   man/hu/man1/xas.1
   man/man1/amule.1
   man/man1/ed2k.1
   man/man1/xas.1
   share/amule/skins/gnome.zip
   share/amule/skins/kde4.zip
   share/amule/skins/tango.zip
   share/amule/skins/xfce.zip
   share/applications/amule.desktop
   share/doc/aMule-2.2.5/ABOUT-NLS
   share/doc/aMule-2.2.5/Changelog
   share/doc/aMule-2.2.5/EC_Protocol.txt
   share/doc/aMule-2.2.5/ED2K-Links.HOWTO
   share/doc/aMule-2.2.5/INSTALL
   share/doc/aMule-2.2.5/README
   share/doc/aMule-2.2.5/TODO
   share/doc/aMule-2.2.5/amule-win32.HOWTO.txt
   share/doc/aMule-2.2.5/amulesig.txt
   share/doc/aMule-2.2.5/license.txt
   share/doc/aMule-2.2.5/socks4.protocol
   share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/et_EE/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/it_CH/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/ko_KR/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/amule.mo
   share/pixmaps/amule.xpm

   
   

   To save disk space, you may choose to make the executable files smaller by running this command: strip *.exe

   
   
10. aMule uses GeoIP data if it is built with GeoIP support. You can copy GeoIP.dat from the GeoIP source package to the aMule folder.
    
11. Installing aMule is easy even without an installer. Just copy aMule and its files into a new folder, for example C:\Program Files\aMule. To create a shortcut in the Start menu, go to %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu and create a shortcut there.
    

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