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=== Visual Studio === | === Visual Studio === | ||
You can get the free Community version of Visual Studio [https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/ here]. | |||
Professional Visual Studio versions are working fine too. | Professional Visual Studio versions are working fine too. | ||
When installing Visual Studio 2017 or later, make sure to select the "Desktop Development with C++" workload. | When installing Visual Studio 2017 or later, make sure to select the "Desktop Development with C++" workload. | ||
Building ScummVM with Visual Studio versions older than 2008 will require additional work which is not described here. | |||
=== Needed Libraries === | === Needed Libraries === | ||
ScummVM relies on third-party libraries | ScummVM relies on third-party libraries for common features, such as MP3 decoding. Some of these libraries, like SDL, are required, whereas others like libtheora are optional. | ||
We supply a set of prebuilt libraries for Visual Studio 2015 and later, which | We supply a set of prebuilt libraries for Visual Studio 2015 and later, which can be found [http://downloads.scummvm.org/frs/build/scummvm_libs_2015.zip here]. | ||
These libraries have been built on Windows 8.1 using the Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition. | |||
If you want to build libraries for use with Visual Studio yourself, please refer to the [[Compiling_ScummVM/Visual_Studio/Compiling_Libraries|instructions for compiling the libraries yourself]]. | |||
=== Installing Libraries === | === Installing Libraries === | ||
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* Unzip the library zip to a directory of your choice, for example "C:\Users\YourUsername\Documents\scummvm_libs_2015". | * Unzip the library zip to a directory of your choice, for example "C:\Users\YourUsername\Documents\scummvm_libs_2015". | ||
* Go to Start Menu > Control Panel > System > Advanced Settings > Environment Variables and add a new variable "SCUMMVM_LIBS" with a value of the path you extracted the zip in. It is important that you do point the variable to the folder containing the "bin", "include", and "lib" directories. | * Go to Start Menu > Control Panel > System > Advanced Settings > Environment Variables and add a new variable "SCUMMVM_LIBS" with a value of the path you extracted the zip in. It is important that you do point the variable to the folder containing the "bin", "include", and "lib" directories. | ||
== Preparing the Project Files == | == Preparing the Project Files == | ||