Windows

This guide documents how to build RawTherapee for 32-bit or 64-bit versions of Windows using the MinGW-w64 runtime. Begin by installing and updating MSYS2 using the instructions from. Then run the following commands using either MinGW-w64 Win32 Shell or MinGW-w64 Win64 Shell depending on whether you want to build a 32-bit or a 64-bit version.

Install tools and libraries
First, install a few miscellaneous tools  $ pacman -S tar gzip nano make diffutils intltool git

Then install the necessary development tools  $ pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-gcc mingw-w64-i686-gdb mingw-w64-i686-make mingw-w64-i686-pkg-config mingw-w64-i686-cmake $ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb mingw-w64-x86_64-make mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake and the required libraries  $ pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-gtkmm mingw-w64-i686-gtkmm3 mingw-w64-i686-lcms2 mingw-w64-i686-fftw $ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gtkmm mingw-w64-x86_64-gtkmm3 mingw-w64-x86_64-lcms2 mingw-w64-x86_64-fftw
 * 1) win32
 * 1) win64
 * 1) win32
 * 1) win64

Download and build libiptcdata
The libiptcdata library is not yet provided by MSYS2, therefore it should be downloaded and configured using  $ curl -LO http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libiptcdata/libiptcdata/1.0.4/libiptcdata-1.0.4.tar.gz $ tar xzf libiptcdata-1.0.4.tar.gz $ cd libiptcdata-1.0.4

$ ./configure --prefix=/mingw32 $ ./configure --prefix=/mingw64
 * 1) win32
 * 1) win64

Afterwards Makefile needs to be opened using a text editor to remove iptc and docs from the lists named SUBDIRS and DIST_SUBDIRS as building or installing will fail otherwise.  $ nano Makefile

DIST_SUBDIRS = m4 libiptcdata po iptc docs win python DIST_SUBDIRS = m4 libiptcdata po win python
 * 1) Replace
 * by

SUBDIRS = m4 libiptcdata po iptc docs win $(MAYBE_PYTHONLIB) SUBDIRS = m4 libiptcdata po win $(MAYBE_PYTHONLIB)
 * 1) And replace
 * by

Finally build and install the library  $ make $ make install $ cd

Download and build Clearlooks
RawTherapee versions that use version 2 of Gtk+ need the Clearlooks theme engine which can be downloaded and built using  $ curl -LO http://sources.archlinux.org/other/gtk-engines/gtk-engines-2.21.0.tar.gz $ tar xzf gtk-engines-2.21.0.tar.gz $ cd gtk-engines-2.21.0

$ ./configure --prefix=/mingw32 --disable-all --enable-clearlooks $ ./configure --prefix=/mingw64 --disable-all --enable-clearlooks
 * 1) win32
 * 1) win64

$ make $ make install $ cd

Clone and build RawTherapee
First, clone RawTherapee's Git repository  $ git clone http://github.com/Beep6581/RawTherapee.git $ cd RawTherapee and optionally checkout a specific branch if you do not want to build the default master, e.g.  $ git checkout gtk3

Then, create a separate directory for the build  $ mkdir build $ cd build and run CMake and Make  $ cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="debug" -DPROC_TARGET_NUMBER="2" -DBUILD_BUNDLE="ON" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="." -DBINDIR="." -DDATADIR="." -DCACHE_NAME_SUFFIX=4 .. $ make -j8 $ make install

Please refer to the Linux article for an explanation of the various options passed to CMake and Make.

If you are doing an optimized build, e.g. release or relwithdebinfo, for older 32-bit versions of Windows like XP, you will need to add the -mstackrealign compiler flag, i.e.  -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-mstackrealign" -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-mstackrealign"

Copy RawTherapee and required DLL
RawTherapee can now be started from the MSYS2 command line  $ cd debug $ cd release $ ./rawtherapee.exe
 * 1) for debug builds
 * 1) for release builds

The file manager can be used to copy the contents of \home\\RawTherapee\build\ together with the necessary DLL from <MSYS2>\<mingw32|mingw64>\bin into a RawTherapee installation folder, where <MSYS2> is the MSYS2 installation folder and <User> the Windows user name.

A (possibly incomplete) list of required DLL is <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap"> libatk-1.0-0.dll libatkmm-1.6-1.dll libbz2-1.dll libcairo-2.dll libcairo-gobject-2.dll libcairomm-1.0-1.dll libepoxy-0.dll libexpat-1.dll libffi-6.dll libfftw3f-3.dll libfontconfig-1.dll libfreetype-6.dll libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll|libgcc_s_seh-1.dll libgdk-3-0.dll libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll libgdkmm-2.4-1.dll libgdkmm-3.0-1.dll libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll libgio-2.0-0.dll libgiomm-2.4-1.dll libglib-2.0-0.dll libglibmm-2.4-1.dll libgmodule-2.0-0.dll libgobject-2.0-0.dll libgomp-1.dll libgtk-3-0.dll libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll libgtkmm-2.4-1.dll libgtkmm-3.0-1.dll libharfbuzz-0.dll libiconv-2.dll libintl-8.dll libjpeg-8.dll liblcms2-2.dll liblzma-5.dll libpango-1.0-0.dll libpangocairo-1.0-0.dll libpangoft2-1.0-0.dll libpangomm-1.4-1.dll libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll libpixman-1-0.dll libpng16-16.dll libsigc-2.0-0.dll libstdc++-6.dll libtiff-5.dll libwinpthread-1.dll zlib1.dll

The following files also need to be copied <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap"> \bin\gspawn-<win32|win64>-helper.exe ->. \bin\gspawn-<win32|win64>-helper-console.exe ->.

\lib\gtk-2.0\include ->. \lib\gtk-2.0\modules ->. \lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\engines ->.

\share\glib-2.0\schemas\gschemas.compiled -> .\share\glib-2.0\schemas where   is <MSYS2>\<mingw32|mingw64> from above and . is the installation folder.

Creating a distributable package
If you plan to distribute Rawtherapee packages for the Windows platform, as a first step you need to make sure that Rawtherapee will be built for the generic processor target. To do so, use  in the cmake command.

During compilation, a script named WindowsInnoSetup.iss is created in the Rawtherapee installation folder. This script is used by Inno Setup, a program which is used to generate installers for Windows programs. It is advised to download the Unicode version to avoid problems with some languages. The current WindowsInnoSetup.iss script is designed for the current master branch (Gtk+2). If you want to create a package from the Gtk3 branch, you will need to edit the script and replace the line

<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap"> Source: "{#MyBuildBasePath}\lib\*"; DestDir: "{app}\lib\"; Flags: ignoreversion recursesubdirs createallsubdirs

with

<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap"> Source: "{#MyBuildBasePath}\share\*"; DestDir: "{app}\share\"; Flags: ignoreversion recursesubdirs createallsubdirs

so that icons and schemas will be copied into the package.

To help users filing useful bug reports, package maintainers are encouraged to produce Debug builds along each of their Release builds, and to bundle them with the gdb debugger executable. Windows binaries of the debugger (gdb.exe) can be downloaded from here in 32 and 64 bits versions.

The gdb.exe binary should be copied in Rawtherapee installation folder and, if using Inno Setup to generate the package, the WindowsInnoSetup.iss script should be edited by adding the following line around line 121 of the script:

<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap"> Source: "{#MyBuildBasePath}\gdb.exe"; DestDir: "{app}"; Flags: ignoreversion

Note that GDB is a program released under GNU GPL license, its soure code can be downloaded at http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/.

Now that everything is set up, to create the package right click on the WindowsInnoSetup.iss script and choose Compile from the context menu. It will automatically generate the installer and place it in the parent folder. To make your new package compatible with the official Rawtherapee website uploader, create a zip archive in which you'll place both the newly created installer and the corresponding AboutThisBuild.txt which should be found at the same place. Name the resulting zip archive following this template: RawTherapee_<WinXP|WinVista>_<32|64>_branch_buildtype_version.zip (for example, Rawtherapee_WinVista_64_gtk3_Release_4.2.730.zip).