Quick 4.1 sources compile guide on Windows

Note: Quick draft, you're welcome to improve it

Note: This is for building a 32-bit version (you can still build and run it on 64-bit)

Get the sources using Mercurial

You need to clone the Euphoria repository

• Run: hg clone http://scm.openeuphoria.org/hg/euphoria/
  
• This will create a copy of the Euphoria repository in the directory where you ran the command.
  
• Let's assume you are inside C:\projects

Grab precompiled Euphoria 4.0 or 4.1 binaries

• For example, you can find 4.1 binaries here http://sourceforge.net/projects/rapideuphoria/files/Euphoria/4.1.0/
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/rapideuphoria/files/Euphoria/4.1.0/euphoria-4.1.0-Win-x86.zip/download was used in this example
• Uncompress it to directory and remember it as you'll need it later :)

Get MINGW and MSYS

• Go to http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started and download the Graphical User Interface Installer provided there.
• Execute, click Install and choose at least mingw32-base and msys-base
• To make things easier you can choose to install to C:\MingW as suggested

• Once you have MINGW and MSYS you'll need to edit a file to make your life easier. Copy C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\etc\fstab.sample (or rename it) to C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\etc\fstab and add your downloaded precompiled Euphoria directory there, example:

#Win32_Path		Mount_Point 
c:/MinGW		/mingw 
c:/Users/KDev/programs/euphoria-4.1.0-Win-x86 /euphoria  

• Now you need to launch MSYS environment in order to be able to run configure and make utilities.
• Run C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat you'll be presented with a terminal. Note that this is a bash shell so commands are different and it's case sensitive.
• Also paths are different, you don't use \ to separate directories (you could use double \) but it's easier to just use /

Building

• Inside this terminal, go to the euphoria repository directory, you would do: cd C:/projects/euphoria
• Once inside it, it's recommended to create a build directory and build there
• Run: mkdir build
• Get inside, run: cd build
• You're ready to go, two steps missing.
• Call configure with: ../configure
• And now: make

If you need further help, contact me on the forum ( gbonvehi / Guillermo Bonveh? )