Packaging: Windows

Packaging for Windows is done using MinGW, since the binaries produced by Visual Studio are not compatible with Windows XP, an important target platform. It is theoretically possible to set up Visual Studio to produce XP-compatible binaries, but due to an incompatibility with the SDL libraries, this approach cannot be used.

Prerequisites

• [MinGW developer setup](./Developer Getting Started: MinGW)
• NSIS

Build and package

Simply run the make_package.bat. Make sure not to run this inside MSYS.