Bug 4403 - Free-to-use 64bit tools exist on Windows, yet no support to build ioquake3 exists because of waiting for gcc support.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2681
Alias: None
Product: ioquake3
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Platform
Version: GIT MASTER
Hardware: All Windows 2000
: P3 major
Assignee: Zachary J. Slater
QA Contact: ioquake3 bugzilla mailing list
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Reported: 2009-12-15 22:35 EST by tinkah
Modified: 2009-12-28 19:36:01 EST
2 users (show)

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Description tinkah 2009-12-15 22:35:48 EST 
'This is getting needlessly messianic'.

Sure, it's excellent having first a GPL compiler before supporting 64bit windows but it's now 2009 and still it's only possible to compile it 32bit.

The free-to-use compiler is the one from Windows SDK latest.

* get latest SDK
* make a project on Visual C++ (already done)
* compile it with msbuild/vcbuild on command line
* fix the errors
* profit
Comment 1 Monk 2009-12-16 01:31:26 EST 
The project file mostly works but it needs someone with time and knowledge of programming and ioq3 to finish it.

http://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3771

Near the end you can read about the use local headers snag.  And it needs server and tools projects for that solution, too.  QVM compiles, could go either way, the binaries are the more important things to get workin'.

So yeah, I'm rootin' fer ya with the 64-bit!  You might want to write out a general how-to as a starting place or something.  Just be aware that all the issues might not be hammered out with the solution/project files.  Most of them, but not all.
Comment 2 Tim Angus 2009-12-28 19:36:01 EST 
Dupe of #2681.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2681 ***