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Compiling DFHack for Windows is actually really easy if explained, and it doesn't require a zillion programs, just four.

You need:
CMake
Git - I prefer Github or mysysgit for these purposes (simple command line stuff).
Perl - Strawberry Perl is simplest
Visual Studio 2010 Express for C#

• Install all four of the above programs.
• Hold down Shift and right-click in an empty space on your desktop. Select "Open command window here".
• Type "git clone -b develop git://github.com/dfhack/dfhack.git" and hit Enter. (Remove the "-b develop" part if you don't want the development branch version, but you usually will.)
• Type "cd dfhack" and hit Enter.
• Type "git submodule init" and hit Enter.
• Type "git submodule update" and hit Enter.
• Close the command prompt and open the DFHack folder you just made and then open the Build folder inside of that.
• Double-click on 'generate-MSVC-gui.bat'.
• In the window that pops up, uncheck the box that says "DL_RUBY", then click Configure, and lastly click Generate.
• Close that window and enter the new VC2010 directory that was created and double-click on dfhack.sln.
• Open the "Solution Explorer" tab to the right, scroll down to "PACKAGE", and then right-click on it and hit "Build".
• When it eventually finishes running, open the new folder "_CPack_Packages", then the folder "win32", then the folder "ZIP", and you will have your very own zipped-up DFHack build.

also I just tried this and it worked, but no idea how I'd make it even try to generate something for 40.12 ("96>  CPack: - package: C:/Users/salithus/Desktop/dfhack/build/VC2010/dfhack-0.40.11-r1-Windows.zip generated.")

E: figured it out - dunno if it matters but symbols.xml on github shows "<symbol-table name='v0.40.11 SDL' os-type='windows'>", but I replaced the file the above generated with the github one and it fired up just fine on .40.12

Quote from: lethosor on September 11, 2014, 03:20:10 pm

It might be possible to reset modifier keys when the window focus changes through DFHack, but it would require interposing additional SDL functions (and would only be necessary on Windows, and possibly some Linux distributions).

That would definitely be worth doing if it's possible, since this is one of the most common problems new players have with dfhack.

I just assumed I was doing something incompetent until it got brought up in this thread. D:

ok, torrents are up

It'll take me some time to digest that for sure

Also, I've extracted the default embark profiles from the Win and Linux LNPs - I'll grab the Mac one tomorrow. If anyone has any insight into what was picked (both within a profile and why a profile was included in a pack in the first place) - feel free to drop some knowledge!

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Embark_profile_repository is a list of profiles ("Starting build" covers the creation of profiles).

Just updated it with the Starter Pack profiles.

Linux Lazy Newb Pack V0.40.11
[thread]

[Editor's Note: I'm going to clean this up and prettify it, but I wanted to at least get the discussion going.]

There's been some discussion in PE's Starter Pack thread regarding embark profiles - who uses what and why. There's also an entry in the Wiki that covers some. This thread is intended to do the following:

* Provide a place to discuss pros and cons of certain decisions.
* Provide a repository (mirrored on the wiki) of community drafted and/or popular embark profiles.
* Expand our knowledge about how embark profiles work (I, for one, know just enough to get myself into trouble.

I want to set up a classification system for them based on some things, which I'll expand on later, but for the time being let's get those profiles out there and talk about what works and what doesn't!


Wiki Article: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Starting_build

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Embark_profile_repository is a list of profiles ("Starting build" covers the creation of profiles).

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* http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=126076.msg5645125#msg5645125
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