Installing libuast on Windows

There are two supported options how to build libuast on Windows: using MinGW or Visual Studio.

Prerequisites

• cmake
• git

cmake and git must be in %PATH%. The installation prefix %PREFIX% must be defined, e.g. SET PREFIX=c:\opt

MinGW

You may choose to install everything through MSYS2 or download just the needed software:

• tdm-gcc or any other MinGW
• GNU make

In the latter case, all the commands are supposed to be run in "MinGW Command Prompt".

MSVC++

• MSVC++

All the commands are supposed to be run in Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio which must match the host architecture (32 or 64 bit).

Common steps

Fetch the source code:

git clone https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2
git clone https://github.com/bblfsh/libuast

MinGW

libxml2

cd libxml2\win32
cscript configure.js ftp=no http=no c14n=no docb=no iconv=no legacy=no prefix=%PREFIX% compiler=mingw
make -f Makefile.mingw install
cd ..\..

libuast

cd libuast
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=%PREFIX% -DLIBXML2_LIBRARY=%PREFIX%\lib\libxml2.a -DLIBXML2_INCLUDE_DIR=%PREFIX%\include\libxml2 -DDISABLE_EXAMPLES=1 ..
make install
cd ..\..

The resulting DLL will be statically linked to libxml2. If you want to link dynamically, use -DLIBXML2_LIBRARY=%PREFIX%\bin\libxml2.dll instead. The path contains \bin, not \lib.

MSVC++

libxml2

cd libxml2\win32
cscript configure.js ftp=no http=no c14n=no docb=no iconv=no legacy=no prefix=%PREFIX%
nmake /f Makefile.msvc install
cd ..\..

libuast

cd libuast
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM=x64 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=%PREFIX% -DLIBXML2_LIBRARY=%PREFIX%\lib\libxml2.lib -DLIBXML2_INCLUDE_DIR=%PREFIX%\include\libxml2 -DDISABLE_EXAMPLES=1 ..
cmake --build . --target install --config Release
cd ..\..