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Building Alice on Windows

Building Alice is very straightforward for people who have used CMake before and know their way around C++, there are a few things that need to be patched in the 3rd party software though.

First of all, download the following dependencies:

Put boost, snappy and protobuf in the deps directory. We only use a few boost headers so building boost is not nessecary.

Patching / Building Protobuf

  • Open the file vsprojects/protobuf.sln with MSVC

  • It will ask you to convert/upgrade the project, you can ignore any errors that pop-up as long as the project opens

  • In the libprotobuf project, open the file zero_copy_stream_impl_light.cc under Sources

  • Put #include <algorithm> into line 35. It should look like this:

     // Author: kenton@google.com (Kenton Varda)
 // Based on original Protocol Buffers design by
 // Sanjay Ghemawat, Jeff Dean, and others.
 
 #include <algorithm> // This is the new line
 
 #include <google/protobuf/io/zero_copy_stream_impl_lite.h>
 #include <google/protobuf/stubs/common.h>
 #include <google/protobuf/stubs/stl_util.h>

  • Switch from Debug to Release in the menu at the top of the screen

  • Right click libprotobuf and choose Build

  • Do the same for protoc

  • There should now be a folder called Release within the vsprojects folder that contains the build library, just let it sit there, you don't need to move it

Patching Snappy

  • You don't need to build Snappy directly, it is build alongside Alice

  • Open the file snappy.h with any editor, and edit lines 42 - 48 so they look like this:

     #include <stddef.h>
 #include <string>
 
 #include <BaseTsd.h>     // this is new
 typedef SSIZE_T ssize_t; // this is also new
 
 #include "snappy-stubs-public.h"

  • That's it, Snappy can now be build with Alice.

Generating MSVC files for Alice

  • Open CMake which you downloaded before
  • Where is the source code: Set this to the root folder of Alice, the deps folder should be in it
  • Where to build the binaries: Set this to the same folder as above and appened build/
  • Press Configure at the bottom
  • Select Visual Studio 2012 and press okay
  • If it can't find any dependencies it will let you know; check the earlier steps to see if you missed something
  • If you want to build the example, click on BUILD and tick BUILD_EXAMPLE
  • Last but not least, press Generate

Building Alice

  • After you generated the MSVC project files, open the file ALL_BUILD in the build directory
  • Select Release from the menu on the top
  • Right-click ALL_BUILD in the project menu and select Build
  • That's it, you should be able to run the example / work with the library now