I would like to compile and build PokerTH but I am not sure where to begin.

I have read the forum and Wiki but still feel a little lost. I have a Windows XP Pro based system with Visual Studio Express 2005 and 2008, as well as Cygwin and an Apache22 Web development environment (built using the free Web.Developer Server Suite Community Edition from http://sourceforge.net/projects/webdeveloper/ )

I noticed that Visual C++ is no longer supported and I am not quite sure of what is needed to use MinGW.

There are some scripts available which help you to compile PokerTH for Windows using mingw. See

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=166634&package_id=268019

Thank you for your reply, I have downloaded and read the readme.txt file, I have the Cygwin version of mingw (cygwin/mingw) on my system, is there a way to use this version of mingw?

The script will download the proper mingw. Using cygwin might work, but you'll have to rewrite the script then, and you are on your own with that.

The script builds a native windows version. cygwin versions are usually "second choice" and only for the case that native versions are not available.

Thank you for all the help. I went ahead and am currently running the script and it is now downloading boost and bjam.

Everything downloaded and compiled without errors. However at the very end of the script I received the following Authentication error message:

server certificate for 'https://pokerth.svn.sourceforge.net:443
The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority.


I selected p to permanently accept the certificate but no DLL files were copied.

I did not notice this until I tried to run the pokerth_build.cmd script.

Here is the end of the pokerth_download_libs.cmd script:

QUOTE:
Everything is Ok

Folders: 27
Files: 241
Size: 15928535
Compressed: 5228208

Checking out latest PokerTH sources from svn
Error validating server certificate for 'https://pokerth.svn.sourceforge.net:443
':
- The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the
fingerprint to validate the certificate manually!
Certificate information:
- Hostname: *.svn.sourceforge.net
- Valid: from Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:15:07 GMT until Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:15:07 GMT

- Issuer: Equifax Secure Certificate Authority, Equifax, US
- Fingerprint: fb:75:6c:40:58:ae:21:8c:63:dd:1b:7b:6a:7d:bb:8c:74:36:e7:8a
(R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? p
svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svnroot/pokerth/trunk/pokerth'
svn: PROPFIND of '/svnroot/pokerth/trunk/pokerth': Could not read status line: c
onnection was closed by server (https://pokerth.svn.sourceforge.net)

Done checking out latest PokerTH sources

Copying DLLs
The system cannot find the path specified.
0 file(s) copied.
The system cannot find the path specified.
0 file(s) copied.
The system cannot find the path specified.
0 file(s) copied.

This script has finished. You may run the pokerth_build.cmd now

This is what alerted me to the problem:

QUOTE:
C:\pokerth\pokerth_win32_build>pokerth_build.cmd C:\pokerth
PokerTH Win32 mingw build script version 1.0.
Copyright (C) 2008 Lothar May. License: GPL 2 or later
BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY
FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.


Using "C:\pokerth" as base directory.

This script should be run AFTER pokerth_download_libs.cmd.

It will perform the following steps:
- Clean the current build of PokerTH
- Update the PokerTH sources from svn
- Build PokerTH from the sources

You may run this script again at any time, in case you
wish to update your version.

Press Ctrl+c to abort.
The process will start if you press any other key.
Press any key to continue . . .

Checking for an installation of Qt
Make sure to run pokerth_download_libs.cmd BEFORE this script.
Also make sure that you use the same base directory for both scripts..