Nana in Eclipse

Building Nana for a Windows IDE 🚧

This is in no way going to be a precise step by step tutorial. Some general knowledge is presumed.

I recommend using TDM-GCC instead of MinGW because TDM-GCC has the later versions of the tools needed to build nana 1.3.
Note MinGW most probably wont work anyway, unless it is updated in the future.

Download and or use git to get the source code of nana and extract it to where you want (ie C:\libs\nana). This will be the source code folder
Install TDM-GCC as per the gui installer:

For 64 bit:
- Create ==> MinGW-w64/TDM64 (32-bit and 64-bit) ==> TDM-GCC - For 32 bit
- Create ==> MinGW/TDM (32-bit) ==> TDM-GCC.

make sure gcc and g++ are installed by running 'g++ --version' in cmd
open cmake gui
- download it if you don't already have it installed
input the source code folder (root of nana folder, the one we previous got from git or extracted. C:\libs\nana).
input the build folder (where you want the library to be built), ie: "C:\libs\nana\build\bin\eclipse" or "C:\libs\nana\build\bin\netbeans" etc .
click configure
** optionally you can change some options. Pun intended 😆
click Generate
In cmd (I used git bash though): cd to the build folder and run mingw32-make (or make if the former doesn't work).

Using the library in eclipse
1. when you create a new C++ nana project in eclipse make sure you are using the TDM-GCC tool-chain previously installed.
2. create a new C++ project
3. right click on the new project and click properties
4. go to C/C++ General > Paths and Symbols > Includes > GNU C++ > add a new entry: the path to the nana include folder (ie C:/libs/nana/include)
5. go to C/C++ General > Paths and Symbols > Symbols > GNU C++ > add 2 entries: NANA_MINGW and NANA_UNICODE
6. go to C/C++ General > Paths and Symbols > Libraries > add 3 entries: nana , gdi32 and comdlg32
7. go to C/C++ General > Paths and Symbols > Library Paths > add a new entry: the path to the build folder (ie C:\libs\nana\build\bin\eclipse)