Windows Compilation

To start compiling we need following software installed:

1. Microsoft compiler and libraries:

• For latest version compilation you need Visual Studio 2013 or VS 2013 Express for Desktop
• http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=40787
• Run its Native x64 Command Prompt or x64 cross tools for Express. Older unsopported variants:
• Windows SDK 7.1 : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8279

2. Git for Windows:

• http://msysgit.github.io/ (also includes msys linux-like command prompt) (check "use Git from the Windows command prompt" when installing)

3. CMake

• http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html (check "Add CMAKE to system path" when installing)

4. Far Manager may simplify things with the Windows command prompt

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All command-line compilation should be done from VS2013 64 bit command prompt (in Start menu)

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Choose a folder for compiled dependencies (no standard paths for that in Windows), i.e. "d:\libs" and place the needed sources somehere else.

1. Unpack somewhere zlib, bz2 and libxml sources (no stable repositories),

• Bat-file tested for the following sources:
  • http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
  • http://www.bzip.org/1.0.6/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz
  • ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.9.1.tar.gz
• Run build_base.bat or compile each library manually.

2. Compile Boost.

• Download and & unpack Boost 1.55: http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.55.0/
• Use build_boost.bat or run the following from the command prompt:
• Run bootstrap.bat from SDK command prompt.
• bjam toolset=msvc-12.0 variant=release address-model=64 threading=multi link=static runtime-link=shared --prefix=d:\libs\boost -sBZIP2_SOURCE="d:\build\bzip2-1.0.6" -sZLIB_SOURCE="d:\build\zlib-1.2.8" install (for 64-bit static release boost, to compile all variants just omit variant=release link=static threading=multi, for VS2012 use msvc-11.0)
• On VS2013 you may need to fix incompatibility https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9332 , replace file has_member_function_callable_with.hpp with the given one.

3. Compile protobuf, osm-binary and Lua+LuaBind (did not try LuaJit)

• Run build_other.bat (or follow thesame procedure as its contents - clone, cmake with flags, nmake install)

4. Build stxxl

• Run build_stxxl.bat
• some errors may follow, in that case patch cmakelists.txt to exclude problematic .cpp (recursive template typedefs- error), see stxxl_win.patch (seem to work without it on VS2013 and latest stxxl)

5. Compile OSRM :)

• See build_osrm.bat (change the paths to actual ones).
• Boost-finding errors are often, be sure to compile boost with the same bitness thatnt OSRM and with the same verion of compiler

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= Notes =

• You can compile some of the cmake-based projects under Visual Studio, replacing generator -G "NMake Makefiles" with -G "Visual Studio 12 Win64" (VS2013) or -G "Visual Studio 11 Win64" (VS2012).
• It is also convenient to use QtCreator IDE (it supports cmake), I was even able to debug running OSRM.
• Necessary DLLs from libs\bin should be available in system PATH or current folder to run OSRM.
• For testing you need to install Ruby:\ http://rubyinstaller.org/news/2013/11/24/rubyinstaller-1-9-3-p484-and-2-0-0-p353-released/ (then gem install bundle, bundle install)

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• Batch files and source code patches are available here.
• Support files are available here