# THIS GUIDE IS INTENDED FOR DEVELOPERS ONLY, SUPPORT WILL ONLY BE GIVEN IF YOU'RE A DEVELOPER.
## Method I: MSVC Build for Windows
### Minimal Dependencies
On Windows, all library dependencies are automatically included within the `externals` folder, or can be downloaded on-demand. To build Eden, you need to install:
* **[Visual Studio 2022 Community](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/)** - **Make sure to select C++ support in the installer. Make sure to update to the latest version if already installed.**
* **[CMake](https://cmake.org/download/)** - Used to generate Visual Studio project files. Does not matter if either 32-bit or 64-bit version is installed.
* **[Vulkan SDK](https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home#windows)** - **Make sure to select Latest SDK.**
- A convenience script to install the latest SDK is provided in `.ci\windows\install-vulkan-sdk.ps1`.

* **Git** - We recommend [Git for Windows](https://gitforwindows.org).

* While installing Git Bash, you should tell it to include Git in your system path. (Choose the "Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party software" option.) If you missed that, don't worry, you'll just have to manually tell CMake where your git.exe is, since it's used to include version info into the built executable.
* Open the solution file `yuzu.sln` in Visual Studio 2022, which is located in the build folder.

* Depending if you want a graphical user interface or not (`eden` has the graphical user interface, while `eden-cmd` doesn't), select `eden` or `eden-cmd` in the Solution Explorer, right-click and `Set as StartUp Project`.
* *(Note: This build is not a static build meaning that you need to include all of the DLLs with the .exe in order to use it!)*
e.g.
```Bash
cp externals/ffmpeg-*/bin/*.dll bin/
```
Bonus Note: Running programs from inside `MSYS2 MinGW x64` shell has a different %PATH% than directly from explorer. This different %PATH% has the locations of the other DLLs required.
A convenience script for building is provided in `.ci/windows/build.sh`. You must run this with Bash, e.g. Git Bash or MinGW TTY. To use this script, you must have windeployqt installed (usually bundled with Qt) and set the `WINDEPLOYQT` environment variable to its canonical Bash location, e.g. `WINDEPLOYQT="/c/Qt/6.9.1/msvc2022_64/bin/windeployqt6.exe" .ci/windows/build.sh`.
Extra CMake flags should be placed in the arguments of the script.
Additional environment variables can be used to control building:
-`BUILD_TYPE`: Sets the build type to use. Defaults to `Release`
The following environment variables are boolean flags. Set to `true` to enable or `false` to disable:
* Note that using system Qt requires you to include the Qt CMake directory in `CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH`, e.g. `.ci/windows/build.sh -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:/Qt/6.9.0/msvc2022_64/lib/cmake/Qt6`
After building, a zip can be packaged via `.ci/windows/package.sh`. Note that you must have 7-zip installed and in your PATH. The resulting zip will be placed into `artifacts` in the source directory.