Shareaza

== Compiling Shareaza ==

=== Microsoft Visual Studio ===

1. Install Visual Studio

Shareaza can be compiled by VS2008 or by VS2010. http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products

(VS2003 and VS2005 was dropped)

1.1. Install Visual Studio 2008

‘’‘Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Full Edition’‘’ This needs to be a Full Edition preferably Team Edition and not the Express Release. If you want to compile to 64-bit, make sure to enable it during the install process under Add or Remove Features (Language Tools -> Visual C++ -> X64 Compilers and Tools).

‘’‘Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 (v6.01) and .NET Framework 3.5’‘’ If you are installing a Full Edition of Visual Studio you should by default get Windows SDK installed. In my case Microsoft Windows v6.0A SDK was installed by default with Microsoft.Visual.Studio.Team.System.2008.Team.Suite. If v6.01 was not installed with your Visual Studio 2008 installation then you will need to download and install SDK v6.1 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e6e1c3df-a74f-4207-8586-711ebe331cdc&displaylang=en Please note that a full download of all installation options of SDK v6.1 is 1.2GB. For compiling purposes �Documentation� and �Samples� are not required. In installation options deselect all �Documentation� and �Samples� to reduce the instillation download size to 83.3MB.

‘’‘Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1’‘’ This fixes a lot of VS2008 errors and adds TR1 so it is a must have. Please note you must (re)install SP1 ‘’‘after’‘’ SDK 6.01 to avoid CRT bugs. You can download the pack from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBEE1648-7106-44A7-9649-6D9F6D58056E&displaylang=en

1.2. Install Visual Studio 2010

‘’‘Microsoft Visual Studio 2010’‘’ Any version fit except “Test Professional”.

2. Download & copy gzip.exe into your windows path eg. C:\WINDOWS\system32

I am using version 1.2.4 which you can download from http://www.gzip.org/. On some systems, possibly related to Windows 7 or Windows 64-bit, placing gzip in system32 will not be recognized. In that case, just put it somewhere else in Visual Studio’s executable path, such as under ‘Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/Common7/Tools’.

3. To setup the [http://www.boost.org/ boost] library download it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.44.0/boost_1_44_0.7z/download.

You will only need to extract the zipped files and ‘’‘NOT’‘’ compile the library. Uncompress boost_1_44_0.7z to a drive/folder on your PC. ie C:\boost_1_44_0

4. Add Visual Studio Include Directory Path for [http://www.boost.org/ boost]

You need to make sure that Visual Studio is pointing to and including the boost library. Go to Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories -> Win 32 - Include Files Make sure the first entry in the list is the path to your boost library. If the entry is not there add it. ie C:\boost_1_44_0 Do the same for Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories -> x64 - Include Files

5. Download and install Inno !QuickStart Pack Setup (unicode) from http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php.

Make sure you install the “Inno !QuickStart Pack” (unicode) not the standard setup/install. The “!QuickStart Pack” includes additional components that are required that the standard setup does not include. When it asks you whether you want to download and install additional features be sure to choose yes [to at least ISTool]. I am using ispack-5.3.11-unicode.exe. Also make sure you install Inno on your C drive. I generally install my programs on another drive but found when setting up visual studio last time that the project file used to build Shareaza used a script reference to access Inno. This script assumed that Inno was installed on C drive, so not having Inno installed on C drive caused an error in compiling. To avoid this potential problem I installed Inno on my C drive this time and had no problems.

6. Download and install [http://tortoisesvn.net/ TortoiseSVN].

Use [http://tortoisesvn.net/ TortoiseSVN] “Checkout” with URL repository https://shareaza.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/shareaza/trunk/ to download current code. [http://tortoisesvn.net/ TortoiseSVN] will notify you of updates to the program as they are made available. Please note, the [http://tortoisesvn.net/ TortoiseSVN] required for compilation, Shareaza uses its COM-interface to retrieve source tree revision.

Once all the above is in place you can compile.

Open in VS2008 the following source file \vc9\Shareaza.sln This will open the “Solution” Go into Build -> Configuration Manager and set Shareaza build config eg Configuration = Debug / Platform = Win32 or Configuration = Debug / Platform = x64 Then select “Rebuild Solution” to start to compile At the end of a successful compile you will find a newly compiled installer in \setup\builds folder.

Note: If you try compiling an x64 build on a 32bit machine you will get the following repeated error "Project : error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error code from “Performing registration”. This error occurs because you can not register 64bit DLLs on a 32bit machine! It is not advisable to compile a 64-bit build on 32-bit windows, as you cannot test what you are compiling.

The following is a useful link for keeping up to date with revision numbers and changes http://cia.vc/stats/project/shareaza/.rss.

As a side note, I found setting up with VS2008 was less problematic than VS2005.

Enjoy ;)