Compilation guide (Windows)

Compiling SSNES for Windows is done with the MinGW toolchain. Both 32-bit and 64-bit variants should work.

Building on Windows

Download and run MSYSGit, and you should be presented with a bash shell with Git working. You'll also need the MinGW toolchain with make installed. Then you can check out the source tree:

git clone git://github.com/Themaister/SSNES.git
cd SSNES

Now we need to download the library pack and the headers pack, and extract them into the top directory of SSNES. Pick the 32-bit or 64-bit archives depending on which architecture you're building for:

https://github.com/downloads/Themaister/SSNES/SSNES-win32-libs.zip (32-bit)
https://github.com/downloads/Themaister/SSNES/SSNES-win32-headers.zip (32-bit)
https://github.com/downloads/Themaister/SSNES/SSNES-win64-headers.zip (64-bit)
https://github.com/downloads/Themaister/SSNES/SSNES-win64-libs.zip (64-bit)

Note that you might have to install dsound.h and dinput.h DirectX headers in a place where MinGW can see them. This is typically C:/MinGW/include or something like that.

Now build:

mingw32-make -f Makefile.win # If your compiler isn't called gcc/g++, you can set the proper compiler name with CC= and CXX=, standard Unix fare. You might also need to set WINDRES= if needed.

Building GUI

Since the command-line isn't very comfortable on Windows, you will most likely want SSNES-Phoenix unless you're planning to launch via XBMC or something like that.

git clone git://github.com/Themaister/SSNES-Phoenix.git
cd SSNES-Phoenix
mingw32-make -f Makefile.win

Then you can move the ssnes-phoenix.exe into the folder you built SSNES to make your life easier :)

Building on Linux with MinGW cross chain

Building with a cross chain on Linux is probably the most convenient option. You should have unzip and wget installed for maximum laziness! :D You might need to install DirectX headers (dinput.h, dsound.h) properly.

git clone git://github.com/Themaister/SSNES.git
cd SSNES
make -f Makefile.win libs_x86 # libs_x86_64 if you're cross building for x64 Windows.
make -f Makefile.win CC=i486-mingw32-gcc CXX=i486-mingw32-g++ # Cross-chain might be called differently on your distro.

Building GUI

Nothing unexpected here:

git clone git://github.com/Themaister/SSNES-Phoenix.git
cd SSNES-Phoenix
make -f Makefile.win CC=i486-mingw32-gcc CXX=i486-mingw32-g++ WINDRES=i486-mingw32-windres # Will work for 64-bit compilers as well :)

Distributing readily usable .zip packages.

If you want to make distribution builds you can use the ssnes-mingw-build.sh script included in the top directory. It will checkout the latest sources, download libraries, and build distributable .zip files for both 32-bit and 64-bit in "slim" and "full" variants as found in the downloads section. It will also include the GUI:

NOBUILD_64BIT=1 MINGW32_BASE=i486-mingw32 ./ssnes-mingw-build.sh # Build for just 32-bit.
NOBUILD_32BIT=1 MINGW64_BASE=x86_64-w64-mingw32 ./ssnes-mingw-build.sh # Build for just 64-bit.
MINGW32_BASE=i486-mingw32 MINGW64_BASE=x86_64-w64-mingw32 ./ssnes-mingw32-build.sh # Build for both.

The names of the cross chains vary from distro to distro.