some Windows build doc updates and typo fixes

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Building NetHack using the Visual Studio IDE
Building NetHack using MSYS2
Prerequisite Requirements:
MSYS2
o MSYS2
- https://www.msys2.org/
- Download the installer, and start the UCRT64 shell.
then
pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gcc
pacman -S git
pacman -S vim (or your editor of choice)
pacman -S man (otherwise "git help foo" will not work)
then
pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gcc
pacman -S git
pacman -S vim (or your editor of choice)
pacman -S man (otherwise "git help foo" will not work)
o Lua
NetHack 3.7 for Windows requires 3rd party Lua source that is not part
of the NetHack distribution or repository.
OR
A windows cmd command procedure for fetching prerequisite sources
is available, and can be run as follows from the top of the
NetHack source tree to obtain lua:
sys\windows\fetch.cmd lua
o pdcursesmod (Only required if curses interface support is desired)
If you want to include curses interface support in NetHack 3.7 for
3rd part pdcursesmod source code is required and is not part of the
NetHack distribution or repository.
A windows cmd command procedure for fetching prerequisite
sources is available, and can be run as follows from the top of
the NetHack source tree to obtain pdcursesmod:
sys\windows\fetch.cmd pdcursesmod
[the follow is untested]
MinGW-w64 - winlibs standalone build
- https://github.com/brechtsanders/winlibs_mingw
- Download one of the releases from
https://github.com/brechtsanders/winlibs_mingw/releases
and extract the contents into a folder (ideally in a folder
without spaces in the path), and add the location of the
subfolder containing gcc.exe to your PATH.
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| Directories for a Windows NetHack build |
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For Microsoft compiler:
make -f Makefile.mingw32
2. An alternative to MSYS2 may be MinGW-w64 - winlibs standalone build.
That has not been tested by us at time of writing.
MinGW-w64 - winlibs standalone build
- https://github.com/brechtsanders/winlibs_mingw
- Download one of the releases from
https://github.com/brechtsanders/winlibs_mingw/releases
and extract the contents into a folder (ideally in a folder
without spaces in the path), and add the location of the
subfolder containing gcc.exe to your PATH.