Although the development of CruceGame makes heavy use of Linux/Unix tools, developing on MS Windows is also possible using Cygwin.

You will use the setup of Cygwin to install all the necessary tools, including the compiler (gcc), autotools and git.

Step 1 - Download Cygwin

Download the Cygwin setup. The x86 version is ok even if you are runnig 64-bit Windows.

Step 2 - Start the Installation

Start the setup, and select Install from Internet, select the installation folder and a mirror near you.

Step 3 - Select the Required Packages

After selecting the mirror, Cygwin will display a list of packages. There are a lot to choose from and now you will have to carefully select those needed by this project (some are already selected to be installed):

Base/gzip
Base/tar 
Devel/automake1.14
Devel/autoconf2.1
Devel/gcc-core
Devel/gcc-g++
Devel/libgcc1
Devel/gdb
Devel/git
Devel/gettext
Devel/gettext-devel
Devel/intltool
Devel/libiconv
Devel/libncurses-devel
Devel/libncursesw-devel
Devel/libtool
Devel/make
Devel/pkg-config
Editors/mc
Editors/nano
Libs/libglib2.0-devel
Utils/ncurses
Web/wget
Web/openssh

Cygwin will then find dependencies for the selected packages, which also need to be installed. The installation of Cygwin will require ~ 600 MB on disk.

Step 4 - Start Cygwin

Now that the Cygwin installation is complete, you can start the Cygwin Terminal. It is a shell, as those typically found on Linux/Unix systems.

One important thing to remember is how it maps you Windows drives: if you want to change the current folder to D:\, you have to type cd /cygdrive/D/.

Also, ~ is the local home folder, e.g. c:\cygwin\home\Dani\.

Step 5 - Install Cutter

After installing Cygwin, you need to install Cutter. This is done by downloading its source code and compiling it via Cygwin.

Create a folder of disk where the source files will be downloaded to

mkdir ~/Downloads/
cd ~/Downloads/

Download Cutter Source Files

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/cutter/cutter/1.2.2/cutter-1.2.2.tar.gz

Unpack Cutter Source Files

tar -xf cutter-1.2.2.tar.gz
cd cutter-1.2.2

Compile & Install Cutter

./configure --prefix=/usr/
make
make install

Setup git public key

mkdir ~/.ssh (if it does not already exist)
cd ~/.ssh
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@example.com"

Open id_rsa.pub

notepad id_rsa.pub

Copy the content of the file and add it to SSH Keys of your GitHub profile.

Create a fork of CruceGame from GitHub

Checkout CruceGame

cd ~
git clone git@github.com:YOU/CruceGame.git
cd CruceGame/

Select the develop branch

git checkout develop

Compile CruceGame for the first time

./autogen.sh
./configure
make

Test CruceGame for the first time

make check