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Notes for compiling on Windows

Martin Kleusberg edited this page Aug 13, 2021 · 26 revisions

These are initial notes for compiling on Windows

  • MS Visual Studio 2013 (as both compiler + IDE) works
  • Complete setup, build, and packaging instructions are here.
  • Qt Creator (as IDE) works, using MSVC 2013 as the compiler
  • Instructions for setting it up and building haven't yet been written up

Windows XP compatibility

When compiling 32-bit builds, Windows XP compatibility can be enabled for them.

CMake

This post mentions adding -T vc120_xp to the cmake command line as one way to make it happen.

MSVC 2013

Using the MSVC 2013 IDE, it can be achieved like this:

Right click the project file used to compile Choose the WinXP compatibility option

Related Issue(s) in our repo

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