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#### Windows
Follow these instructions to install `pokecrystal` on Microsoft Windows. Once installed, you can run `make` to compile `main.asm` into a ROM.
1. Get `cygwin`. Cygwin provides a virtual linux environment on Windows systems. Just get `setup.exe`:
http://cygwin.com/install.html
During the install:
I. Keep the defaults
II. It shouldn't matter which mirror you choose. http://mirrors.kernel.org worked for me.
III. Now you'll be presented with a package selection screen. Select the following packages. You may use the
search.
* `python` (installed by default)
* `gcc`, `gcc-core` (under devel)
* `byacc` (under devel)
* `make` (under devel)
* `wget` (under web)
* `git` (under devel)
* `mercurial` (optional, if you wish to work with pokered as well)
* `nano` (optional, a simple terminal text editor)
IV. Finish the install. Might take a sec while all packages are downloading.
2. Launch `cygwin`.
Hopefully you know your way around the linux terminal. If not, a crash course:
* `ls` - list directory
* `pwd` - write current directory
* `cd` - change directory
3. The next step is building `rgbds`, the GB compiler. Type:
$ git clone git://github.com/bentley/rgbds.git
$ cd rgbds
$ YACC=byacc make
$ export PATH=$PATH:`pwd`
$ echo "export PATH=$PATH:`pwd`" >> ~/.bashrc
# check if rgbasm is installed now
$ which rgbasm
(If that fails, you can download binaries here:
http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/pokered/rgbds/rgbds-5d6559f15f549c117ef80cbe7f4cb93669a2e5e3.zip
)
The next step is to install `unittest2`, unless you installed python2.7 earlier:
$ cd ~
$ wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
$ easy_install unittest2
Now you should be able to build `pokecrystal` for the first time.
$ cd ~
$ git clone https://github.com/kanzure/pokecrystal.git
$ cd pokecrystal
The final requirement is downloading a Pokemon Crystal ROM:
Pokemon - Crystal Version (UE) (V1.0) [C][!].gbc
md5: 9f2922b235a5eeb78d65594e82ef5dde
Save it as `C:\cygwin\home\(your username)\pokecrystal\baserom.gbc`.
To compile the ROM from ASM source:
$ make
This will take between 3 and 15 seconds, depending on your computer.
If you see `cmp baserom.gbc pokecrystal.gbc` as the last line, the build was successful! Rejoice! Otherwise it will show you an error message.
Now you may try messing around with `main.asm`, or just do whatever you wanted to.
To build again, you should use the following command:
$ make clean && make
Feel free to ask us on nucleus.kafuka.org #skeetendo if something goes wrong (remember to tell where)!