Setting up Irrlicht in MinGW Developer Studio.

[rabidgoldfish]

Quick HOWTO: Setup Irrlicht in MinGW Developer Studio

MinGW Developer Studio is a mingw IDE that seems to be popular for its simplicity and ability to run on MAC, Windows, and Linux.

The process is much the same as setting up for DevC++, but since that tutorial is old some things have changed.

Steps (on Windows XP):

1)-Unzip your irrlicht-x.x file somewhere.
2)-Start MinGWDevStudio and make a new console project.
3)-Goto 'Project' and then 'settings' on the menubar.
4)-Click the 'compile' tab.
5)-Now, navigate to the 'include' DIR and copy the address bar.
6)-Paste into the 'Additional include directories' text box. (spaces in your filenames are probably evil so use quotes)
7)-Click the 'link' tab
8)-Navigate to the 'lib\win32-gcc' directory and again copy the address bar.
9)-Paste into the 'Additional library path' text box.
10)-In the Libraries text box type 'Irrlicht'
11)-Repeat these steps for your other configuration.
12)-Click 'OK'
13)-Add a source file.
14)-Paste in some test code (scroll to the end http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tut_devcpp.html)

Oh, forgot to tell you to compile and run it.

How's that for a first post?

[afecelis]

heheh, welcome! Great 1st post I had almost forgotten about that IDE. Shame it seems it's not being developed anymore. So it works to compile the engine as well ? (the dll).

Oh yes! forgot. Link to MinGW dev studio:
http://www.parinyasoft.com/

[rabidgoldfish]

As for the engine, .... I don't know for sure but I would imagine that it could be; I just started using the library and have not yet found a need to recompile.