Compiling

Here is help on Compiling the NetHack's sources

On Windows

This was tested on Win2k.

• Download NetHack's sources from http://nethack.org/v343/download-src.html

• Download MinGW from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435 (You want the MinGW-X.Y.Z.exe installer, currently it's MinGW-5.0.3.exe)

• Install MinGW. If you use the 'minimal' installation, remember to also select the optional 'MinGW make' -component, so it gets installed. I used C:\mingw\ as the path to install to.

• Unpack NetHack's sources somewhere; I used c:\nh343\. You will need WinZip or some other utility that can uncompress it.

• Go to c:\nh343\sys\winnt\ and run nhsetup.bat

• If you want to run the graphical windows GUI, edit c:\mingw\nh343\src\makefile.gcc and change the line

#GRAPHICAL=Y

to

GRAPHICAL=Y

• Go to c:\nh343\ and create a new file called 'install.bat' with the following contents:

PATH=c:\mingw\bin
cd src
mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc install

• Run the install.bat you just created.

• The NetHack binary should now be in c:\nh343\binary\