Best compiler for Windows 10

[sulheru]

I'm not very used to compile C projects in Windows except for those made in Microsoft VS. But importing your source code to VS has proven to have to many issues. So instead of working problems out of a perfectly made code I would like you to recommend me a windows compiler for your code. Thanks in advance for your help.

[MikeDX]

When I originally started this port, Daniel had a lot of success compiling this for windows using visual studio. I believe VS-Code does things quite differently but it should be easy to setup a project solution to make everything work as it uses very standardised tools and libraries such as cmake and SDL2. The only thing you may need to be mindful of is the #define directives that tell DIV what to do or what to include when it is being compiled for windows.

If I get a chance I will try to compile for windows myself but as I rarely use windows anymore this could be a while!

[MikeDX]

I've spent a little while trying to get this working under msys2 in windows and using visual studio 2017 but not much luck.

The best way to compile div for windows at the moment is cross compile from linux, which is not really ideal for most people, that's why we have the build-bot that produces the archives you see on https://div-arena.co.uk/downloads/nightly

We may get a better way to do things in future, as I am working on another port which will run everywhere :)

[CicTec]

Hello Mike,

The porting of cmake to work with msys2 in windows I have been developing it for a long time, some minor changes should be made so that the compilation in Linux does not break, if you need the cmakelists file I will send it to you.