ACE comes bundled with its own tools for converting file formats. Since those apps run on your development machine and not the Amiga itself, to build them, you'll need a compiler for your operating system.
- On Windows, you need recent version of either the MinGW GCC compiler toolchain (e.g. winlibs-x86_64-posix-seh-gcc-12.2.0-llvm-15.0.7-mingw-w64ucrt-10.0.0-r4) or MSVC.
- On Linux, using GCC is strongly recommended.
- Using Clang on any system is not tested.
To build your tools, open the terminal, navigate to ACE's tools directory, and issue following commands:
mkdir build && cd build
# When using MacOS (to avoid Clang) - assuming you have: brew install gcc@13
export CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc-13
export CXX=/usr/local/bin/g++-13
# When using GCC on Linux, MacOS or MSVC on Windows:
cmake ..
# When using MinGW GCC on Windows:
cmake .. -G "MinGW Makefiles"
cmake --build .When done successfully, you should now have tools/bin directory with ACE tool executables.
If you're stuck by issuing wrong commands, navigate out of build folder, delete it and try again.