diff --git a/doc/How to build - Windows.md b/doc/How to build - Windows.md index 5c54d098e..3df17b88f 100644 --- a/doc/How to build - Windows.md +++ b/doc/How to build - Windows.md @@ -1,11 +1,15 @@ # Step by Step Visual Studio 2019 Instructions +### Install the tools + Install Visual Studio Community 2019 from [visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/). Older versions are not supported as PrusaSlicer requires support for C++17. Select all workload options for C++ Install git for Windows from [gitforwindows.org](https://gitforwindows.org/) Download and run the exe accepting all defaults +### Download sources + Clone the respository. To place it in C:\src\PrusaSlicer, run: ``` c:> mkdir src @@ -13,8 +17,9 @@ c:> cd src c:\src> git clone https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer.git ``` +### Compile the dependencies. +Dependencies are updated seldomly, thus they are compiled out of the PrusaSlicer source tree. Go to the Windows Start Menu and Click on "Visual Studio 2019" folder, then select the ->"x64 Native Tools Command Prompt" to open a command window and run the following: - ``` cd c:\src\PrusaSlicer\deps mkdir build @@ -22,13 +27,19 @@ cd build cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -DDESTDIR="c:\src\PrusaSlicer-deps" msbuild /m ALL_BUILD.vcxproj // This took 13.5 minutes on my machine: core I7-7700K @ 4.2Ghz with 32GB main memory and 20min on a average laptop +``` +### Generate Visual Studio project file for PrusaSlicer, referencing the precompiled dependencies. +Go to the Windows Start Menu and Click on "Visual Studio 2019" folder, then select the ->"x64 Native Tools Command Prompt" to open a command window and run the following: +``` cd c:\src\PrusaSlicer\ mkdir build cd build cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="c:\src\PrusaSlicer-deps\usr\local" ``` +### Compile PrusaSlicer. + Double-click c:\src\PrusaSlicer\build\PrusaSlicer.sln to open in Visual Studio 2019. OR Open Visual Studio for C++ development (VS asks this the first time you start it).