README

ShaderNinja - A live OpenGL fragment shader compiler and viewer

ShaderNinja on SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/shaderninja/

Here I make several remarks regarding the compilation of this program.

Although The Qt Library is supposed to be cross-platform, do not expect this program to be so. I have not tried to
compile this program on any operating system other than mine (Windows 8.1) or computer other than mine (PC).

Similarly, I cannot say that any other tools other than those that I used will work - again, nothing else has been tested.

Environent for compilation: 
 - Windows 8.1
 - MSVC 2013 Express 32 bit
 - Qt 5.5 32 bit (MSVC Version)
 - Qt Installer Framework 2.0.1 Precompiled binary (for the installer only)

To have the following in one's Path environment variable allows the .bat files to call the correlating programs; Also, they're generally convenient.
 - C:\Qt\Qt5.5.0\5.5\msvc2013\bin   (For the windeployqt.exe - copies any Qt libraries the .exe is dependant on)
 - C:\Qt\QtIFW2.0.1\bin             (For generating the installer. The primary program here is binarycreator.exe)


Qt-Installer notes:

Unfortunately, I could not leave the /sn.coreapp/ installer component /data/ directory with some examples - otherwise the
binarycreator simply includes it into the final installation package. Also, it takes far too long to git push the repo.
Therefore, I write some instructions here instead.

To create a new installer with a new executable, the newly-compiled executable should be placed into the /sn.coreapp/data/
directory. Then, navigating to said directory in cmd.exe, enter
	windeployqt ShaderNinja.exe
to automatically copy in all the needed libraries or files, such as Qt5Core.dll. You can copy the dll's by hand also - 
The usual list of dll's/files should be:
	- D3DCompiler_47.dll
	- libEGL.dll
	- libGLESV2.dll
	- opengl32sw.dll
	- Qt5Core.dll
	- Qt5Gui.dll
	- Qt5Svg.dll
	- Qt5Widgets.dll
	- ShaderNinja.exe
	- ShaderNinja.ico
	- /iconengines
	-   qsvgicon.dll
	- /iamgeformats
	-   qdds.dll
	-   qgif.dll
	-   qicns.dll
	-   qico.dll
	-   qjp2.dll
	-   qjpeg.dll
	-   qmng.dll
	-   qsvg.dll
	-   qtga.dll
	-   qtiff.dll
	-   qwbmp.dll
	-   qwebp.dll
	- /platforms
	-   qwindows.dll
...Along with translation folders and files.

When arranging all these, don't leave out the icon - that is used by the /sn.desktopicon/ component should the user want a desktop icon.

Use 7zip to pack the whole thing up into data.7z

Don't leave anything else other than data.7z in the directory, otherwise the binarycreator has a tendency
to also include anything else you have in that directory.

At the top level directory, presuming you have the binarycreator.exe in your Path variable, the rebuild.bat file should
recreate the installer from the given files.