eden/docs/build/Windows.md

⚠️ This guide is for developers ONLY! Support will be provided to developers ONLY.

📋 Current building methods:

• Minimal Dependencies
• ⚡ Method I: MSVC Build for Windows
• 🐧 Method II: MinGW-w64 Build with MSYS2
• 🖥️ Method III: CLion Environment Setup
• 💻 Building from the command line with MSVC
• 📜 Building with Scripts

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Minimal Dependencies

On Windows, all library dependencies are automatically included within the externals folder.

You still need to install:

• CMake - Used to generate Visual Studio project files.

• Vulkan SDK - Make sure to select Latest SDK.

  • A convenience script to install the latest SDK is provided in .ci/windows/install-vulkan-sdk.ps1

• Git for Windows - We recommend installing Git for command line use and version control integration.

  
  • While installing Git Bash, select "Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party software". If missed, manually set git.exe path in CMake.

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⚡ Method I: MSVC Build for Windows

a. Prerequisites to MSVC Build

• Visual Studio 2022 Community - Make sure to select C++ support in the installer, or update to the latest version if already installed.

  • A convenience script to install the minimal version (Visual Build Tools) is provided in .ci/windows/install-msvc.ps1

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b. Clone the eden repository with Git

Open Terminal on

git clone https://git.eden-emu.dev/eden-emu/eden
cd eden

• By default eden downloads to C:\Users\<user-name>\eden

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c. Building

• Open the CMake GUI application and point it to the eden

  

• For the build directory, use a build/ subdirectory inside the source directory or some other directory of your choice. (Tell CMake to create it.)

• Click the "Configure" button and choose Visual Studio 17 2022, with x64 for the optional platform.

  
  • (You may also want to disable YUZU_TESTS in this case since Catch2 is not yet supported with this.)
  

• Click "Generate" to create the project files.

  

• Open the solution file yuzu.sln in Visual Studio 2022, which is located in the build folder.

  
• • Depending on whether you want a graphical user interface or not, select in the Solution Explorer:
    • eden (GUI)
    • eden-cmd (command-line only)
  • Then right-click and choose Set as StartUp Project.
  

• Select the appropriate build type, Debug for debug purposes or Release for performance (in case of doubt choose Release).

  

• Right-click the project you want to build and press Build in the submenu or press F5.

  

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🐧 Method II: MinGW-w64 Build with MSYS2

a. Prerequisites to MinGW-w64

• MSYS2 - A versatile and up-to-date development environment for Windows, providing a Unix-like shell, package manager, and toolchain.

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b. Install eden dependencies for MinGW-w64

• Open the MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit shell (mingw64.exe)
• Download and install all dependencies using:
  • pacman -Syu git make mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2 mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-python-pip mingw-w64-x86_64-qt6 mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain autoconf libtool automake-wrapper
• Add MinGW binaries to the PATH:
  • echo 'PATH=/mingw64/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
• Add VulkanSDK to the PATH:
  • echo 'PATH=$(readlink -e /c/VulkanSDK/*/Bin/):$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc

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c. Clone the eden repository with Git

git clone https://git.eden-emu.dev/eden-emu/eden
cd eden

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d. Building dynamically-linked eden

• This process will generate a dynamically linked build

# Make build dir and enter
mkdir build && cd build

# Generate CMake Makefiles
cmake .. -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DYUZU_TESTS=OFF

# Build
make -j$(nproc)

# Run eden!
./bin/eden.exe

• Warning: 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 or other systems!

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Additional notes

• Eden doesn't require the rather large Qt dependency, but you will lack a GUI frontend

# ...

# Generate CMake Makefiles (withou QT)
cmake .. -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DYUZU_TESTS=OFF -DENABLE_QT=no

# ...

• 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.

    

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🖥️ Method III: CLion Environment Setup

a. Prerequisites to CLion

• CLion - This IDE is not free; for a free alternative, check Method I

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b. Cloning eden with CLion

• Clone the Repository:

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c. Building & Setup

• Once Cloned, You will be taken to a prompt like the image below:

• Set the settings to the image below:
• Change Build type: Release
• Change Name: Release
• Change Toolchain Visual Studio
• Change Generator: Let CMake decide
• Change Build directory: build

• Click OK; now Clion will build a directory and index your code to allow for IntelliSense. Please be patient.
• Once this process has been completed (No loading bar bottom right), you can now build eden
• In the top right, click on the drop-down menu, select all configurations, then select eden

• Now run by clicking the play button or pressing Shift+F10, and eden will auto-launch once built.

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💻 Building from the command line with MSVC

# Clone eden and enter
git clone https://git.eden-emu.dev/eden-emu/eden
cd eden

# Make build dir and enter
mkdir build && cd build

# Generate CMake Makefiles
cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64 -DYUZU_TESTS=OFF

# Build
cmake --build . --config Release

📜 Building with Scripts

• 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:

  • WINDEPLOYQT="/c/Qt/6.9.1/msvc2022_64/bin/windeployqt6.exe" .ci/windows/build.sh.

• You can use aqtinstall, more info on https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall and https://ddalcino.github.io/aqt-list-server/

• Extra CMake flags should be placed in the arguments of the script.

Additional environment variables can be used to control building:

• BUILD_TYPE (default Release): Sets the build type to use.

• The following environment variables are boolean flags. Set to true to enable or false to disable:

  • DEVEL (default FALSE): Disable Qt update checker

  • USE_WEBENGINE (default FALSE): Enable Qt WebEngine

  • USE_MULTIMEDIA (default TRUE): Enable Qt Multimedia

  • BUNDLE_QT (default FALSE): Use bundled Qt

  • Note that using system Qt requires you to include the Qt CMake directory in CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH

    • .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. You must have 7-zip installed and in your PATH.

  • The resulting zip will be placed into artifacts in the source directory.