From bfef1b00bebe85d9a5a6c764542704f7785a9b8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harvey Fong <harvey@oomer.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2026 17:10:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] prelim windows source build instructions, considering nmake
 consolidation

---
 README.md | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e46d336..3a0f687 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ workdir/
 ├── libssl/
 ├── zlib/
 ├── libssl/
+└── poomer-discord/
 ```
 
 ### Ubuntu Linux x64 and arm64
@@ -102,3 +103,37 @@ curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nothings/stb/master/stb_image.h
 curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nothings/stb/master/stb_image_write.h
 make all -j$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)
 ```
+
+
+### Windows x64 
+```
+mkdir workdir && cd workdir
+mkdir zlib libssl DPP poomer-discord sqlite3
+cd ..\zlib
+git clone https://github.com/madler/zlib.git .
+nmake -f win32/Makefile.msc zlib.lib
+cd ../libssl
+
+# Get Perl and Build libssl
+curl -LO https://github.com/StrawberryPerl/Perl-Dist-Strawberry/releases/download/SP_54201_64bit/strawberry-perl-5.42.0.1-64bit-portable.zip
+git clone https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git .
+perl\bin\perl.exe Configure VC-WIN64A
+nmake
+
+# Build sqlite3
+curl -LO https://www.sqlite.org/2025/sqlite-autoconf-3510100.tar.gz
+tar xzf sqlite-autoconf-3510100.tar.gz --strip-components=1
+nmake /f Makefile.msc sqlite3.exe
+
+# Build DPP
+cd ..\DPP 
+git clone https://github.com/brainboxdotcc/DPP.git .
+cmake -B ./build -DOPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR="$PWD/../libssl/include" -DOPENSSL_CRYPTO_LIBRARY="$PWD/../libssl/libcrypto.dylib" -DOPENSSL_SSL_LIBRARY="$PWD/../libssl/libssl.dylib" -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$PWD/../zlib"
+cmake --build ./build -j4
+
+# Build poomer-discord
+cd ../poomer-discord
+git clone https://git.indoodle.com/oomer/poomer-discord.git .
+curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nothings/stb/master/stb_image.h
+curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nothings/stb/master/stb_image_write.h
+```