This information pertains to building Diamond to run on Windows.

Diamond was built using CMake 3.8.

Utilities

We recommend installing this version of MSYS, which provides GNU Make and other tools designed to work with the MinGW version of GCC. The same version is used for MSYS on 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

MSYS Version msys+7za+wget+svn+git+mercurial+cvs-rev13.7z MSYS

Compiler

Diamond 32-bit and 64-bit are built using GCC version 7.3.0 from MinGW.

The following link is to our web site. From there you will find links to the version of MingGW used to build CopperSpice and Diamond. MinGW Builds

Building Diamond

• Ensure the CopperSpice libraries are installed   CopperSpice Pre-Built Binaries
• Download Diamond source and unpack the files to [your_path]\diamond   Diamond Source

• Download Hunspell source and unpack the files to [your_path]\hunspell   Hunspell Source

  # Hunspell is built using Autotools

  # configure step

  mkdir build

  cd build

  ../configure --prefix=`pwd`/../hunspell_lib cxxflags=-o2

  # build step

  make install

  # copy files to diamond

  path=/c

  mkdir -p $path/diamond/hunspell_lib/bin

  mkdir -p $path/diamond/hunspell_lib/include

  mkdir -p $path/diamond/hunspell_lib/lib

  cp hunspell_lib/bin/*.dll $path/diamond/hunspell_lib/bin

  cp hunspell_lib/include/hunspell/* $path/diamond/hunspell_lib/include

  cp hunspell_lib/lib/*.dll.a $path/diamond/hunspell_lib/lib
• From a bash prompt in [your_path]\diamond run the following commands to build and install
  cmake -G "Ninja" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=[path_to_copperspice] .

  ninja install