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Nehal J Wani, 14 Aug 2014 16:08

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h1. Building exiv2 on Windows Using Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012
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*Last revision on which this method was tested: r3288
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*Operating Systems on which this method was tested: Windows7 Professional and Home-Premium 64bit
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# Download "@Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012@":http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=34673
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# Download "@win32svn@":http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32svn/files/latest/download and install it in @C:\Program Files (x86)\Subversion@
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# Open command prompt and type: 
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<pre>
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mkdir C:\gnu #Can be some other location too.
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cd C:\gnu
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svn checkout svn://dev.exiv2.org/svn/trunk #Download latest exiv2 source code
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</pre>
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# Download "@expat-2.1.0@":http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/files/expat/2.1.0/expat-2.1.0.tar.gz/download and extract it to @C:\gnu@
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# Download "@zlib-1.2.7@":http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/zlib/1.2.7/zlib-1.2.7.tar.gz/download and extract it to @C:\gnu@ 
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!Windows_BuildDir.png!
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# Navigate to @C:\gnu\trunk\msvc2012@ and open the file @exiv2.sln@ in @Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2012@
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!exiv2.sln.png!
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# Press @OK@ for all security warnings. #Believe me, exiv2's code is clean, we don't pose security threats :)
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!VisualStudioSecurityWarning.png!
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# Go to @Build->Configuration Manager@.
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!VisualStudio2012_Build.png!
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Tick build for all projects. You will have 8 combinations @[{Debug|DebugDLL|Release|ReleaseDLL}|{x64|Win32}]@ to choose from. Click close.
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!VisualStudio2012_BuildConfig.png!
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# Go to @Build->Build Solution@. After the build is complete, you'll see in the output window: 
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<pre>========== Build: 32 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========</pre>
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# All the built binaries are available in @C:\gnu\trunk\msvc2012\bin@
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!VisualStudio2012FinalBuild.png!
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# Install "@cygwin (64-bit)@":https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe or "@cygwin (32-bit)@":https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe
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# While selecting packages, make sure to select make and dos2unix.
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!Cygwin_package_make.png!
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!Cygwin_package_dos2unix.png!
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# Open the @cygwin terminal@. Navigate to @C:\gnu\trunk\tests@ and run tests:
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!CygwinExiv2Tests.png!