How to build VCMI (Windows/Cmake)

Prerequisites

• HoMM 3 (can be bought at gog.com)

• CMake download
• Git or git GUI, for example, SourceTree download

• Qt5 bundle download
• Boost libraries download
• SDL libraries
  • libSDL2 download
  • libSDL2_image download
  • libSDL2_mixer download
  • libSDL2_ttf download
• ZLib download

Clone VCMI

• open SourceTree
• File -> Clone
• select https://github.com/vcmi/vcmi/ as source
• select [VCMIBUILD_DIR]/src as destination
• click Clone

Install Qt bundle

• Run installer
• Select latest Qt for mingw and mingw 4.8.2 from tools
• Select [VCMIBUILD_DIR]/qt as destination folder

Build boost

• Unpack boost archive

bootstrap.bat gcc
b2 toolset=gcc --without-python --stage

• copy stage/lib to [VCMIBUILD_DIR]/boost/lib
• copy boost dir to [VCMIBUILD_DIR]/boost/boost

So, you should get

• [VCMIBUILD_DIR]
  • boost
    • boost
    • lib

Unpack SDL2

• Unpack all SDL2* archives
• Copy content of i686-w64-mingw32 to [VCMIBUILD_DIR]/depends

So, you should get

• [VCMIBUILD_DIR]
  • depends
    • bin
    • include
    • lib

= Build ZLib