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# 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
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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
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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).