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Here are the instructions for building the Polymorph screensaver from source. See README for how to run or install the screensaver after it is built.

Setting up the build environment.

You need a recent MinGW-W64 toolchain and GNU Make. To get them, install MSYS2 from Sourceforge, then launch the MINGW32 or MINGW64 shell and get the necessary packages using the commands:

pacman -Sqyu ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-gcc
pacman -Sqyu ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-make

If you want to minify the shader sources, you also need to have Perl installed.

Compile commands.

To compile, enter this command in the MINGW32 or MINGW64 shell:

mingw32-make

You can set variables on the Make command line to influence Make's behaviour. For example:

  • To target 32-bit Windows:

      mingw32-make PLATFORM=x86

  • To specify the location of Perl if it is not on the path:

      mingw32-make PERL=c:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe

  • To skip shader minification (e.g., if Perl is not available):

      mingw32-make shaders=full