Building for Windows - Sonicadvance1/dolphin GitHub Wiki

Prerequisites

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• Windows Vista or higher, preferably 64-bit version.
• Git Extensions (check MsysGit in the installer, and select "Run Git from the Windows Command Prompt") or any other Git tool as long as it puts git in the PATH. If you get issues with scmrev.h, add the directory containing git to the PATH environment variable.
• Visual Studio 2013 - with Update 2
  • Update 2 can be found here: http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs#DownloadFamilies_5
  • You may use the free Express for Windows Desktop edition: (net install | ISO)
  • Dolphin does not require any of the optional packages offered by the Visual Studio 2013 installer, you may uncheck them all.
• The June 2010 DirectX SDK is required if you are building on or for a version of Windows prior to Windows 8.

Get & Build Dolphin

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Cloning (with Git Extensions)

1. Open Git Extensions and select Clone repository.
2. Enter repository URL as it appears on the Github project page
3. Click Clone to start downloading.
4. Protip: Enable NTFS compression on the root of your source directory.

Building

1. Open Source/dolphin-emu.sln.
2. Select the target you'd like to build.
3. Press F7 or choose Build > Build Solution from the menu bar.

Keeping up to date

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When you want to update to the latest revision:

Git Extensions

1. Right click the dolphin-emu folder and choose Git Extensions -> Pull
2. Make sure you are pulling from "origin" and click Pull.

Visual Studio

1. Go to the Team Explorer window and choose Pull.