Did you ./configure ?

says that aint a valid command. (compiling from windows and not a terminal)

edit: i see, i may know what to do... just lemme check something...

nope, i cant compile it -.- yet i can compile zsnes fine and dandy, why is there no makefile.ms? what is this ./configure for? do i need a path to somewhere for ./configure to work?

There's a precompiled build on the dosbox homepage for people can't
or don't want to compile the sources themselves. Where's the problem
with that one?

i want a build optimized for my CPU.

read the install file.
(and on the wiki there is some talk about how to build your own version of dosbox as well)

Don't expect too much from that though. Some majour parts are dynamically
generated so the compiler optimizations don't kick in.

Anyways, do you have mingw or msvc set up? If so, are all libraries installed?
That wiki page gives step by step instructions. If you're using the sources
directly from sf cvs you have to execute ./autogen.sh (mingw assumed)
before ./configure.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php? … =BuildingDOSBox
http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/
which msvc do i get? i got the core one... do i need any others? (that link doesnt elaborate... it just says get msvc.

also, after i install msvc and it says it found my mingw install if i try to run the msvc.bat file it says file not found instead of a unix style command prompt.

msvc!=mingw

Go to http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml
and get msysDTK-1.0.0.exe and MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe and
follow their instructions (don't remember which one has
to be installed first).

this ./ thing does nothing no matter what i do, to me it sounds like this ./ is not for windows... i am linked to 2 places to get mingw and msys from... the wiki and wd.

i installed mingw then overwrote that install with msys. i setup a path to the bin folder in there. i go to dosbox 0.70 source and type via a bat file "./configure" i get a " '.' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file" error

do i do "make ./configure" ?

msys needs to be installed into seperate directory, not overwrite mingw (I install it to c:\mingw\msys though). At the end of msys setup, there are a few questions (like setting up path to mingw) make sure those are all ok. Then you need to run ./configure from msys, not a dos window.

ah, ok... that is not explained on that wiki site.

i downloaded the msys 1.0.0 dtk and none of the exe files will run due to a lack of msys-1.0.dll

i also tried the newer 1.0.1 dtk but it exhibited the same problem... also how do i configure its paths?
http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe?download
http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.0.exe?download

You also need MSYS, install it before DTK. And if you update the wiki with the missing steps, I'm sure everybody will appreciate it 😀

OK, i now at the msys prompt... er, whats the equivalent of DIR and CD FOLDERNAME and going up a level ?

location of the source is @ E:\emulators\Super Nintendo\snes tools\dosbox-0.70

At my place (msys installed in c:\mingw\msys) it's C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\username\
It's best to put the sources here.

(dir == ls (or ls -la), cd is the same, but needs a space for cd .. 😀)

hurrah, ./configure actually does something 😁

checking for sdl-config... no
checking for SDL - version >= 1.2.0... no
*** The sdl-config script installed by SDL could not be found
*** If SDL was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the SDL_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to sdl-config.
configure: error: *** SDL version 1.2.0 not found!

where do i place the 2 sdl dll files from the dosbox for it to compile?

You need the development libraries for mingw, dll is not enogh

http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php

This is mentioned in the wiki... 😒