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Prerequisites

• Minimal supported OS version : Windows 7 32 bit

• MS Visual Studio 2013 or newer. MS Visual Studio 2015 or 2017 recommended.

• Git for Windows Download and install. Open Git Bash console in your workspace folder, clone GLideN64. To clone type: git clone https://github.com/gonetz/GLideN64.git

• Set environment variables (right click on This Computer=>Properties=>Additional system parameters=>Environment variables=>Create)

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N64PluginsDir . Set its value as path to Plugin folder for 32bit zilmar-spec emulators, such as Project64

N64PluginsDir_x64. Set its value as path to Plugin64\GFX folder for 64bit version of Project64

Mupen64PluginsDir . Set its value as path to folder with plugins for 32bit version of mupen64plus

Mupen64PluginsDir_x64 . Set its value as path to folder with plugins for 64bit version of mupen64plus

Build mupen64plus version

• all necessary libs are already in the project.

• Run Visual Studio. Solution file for Visual Studio: projects/msvc/GLideN64.sln

• To build the debug version select configuration "Debug_mupenplus" To build the release version select configuration "Release_mupenplus"

• Select platform. win32 for 32bit mupen64plus, x64 for 64bit one.

• Press F7 or choose Build > Build Solution from the menu bar.

• After successful build resulted files will be copied to folder, which you set in environment variable - Mupen64PluginsDir for 32bit build, Mupen64PluginsDir_x64 for 64bit build.

Build zilmar spec version

How to build GLideNUI.

GLideNUI uses static build of QT libraries. You may build them from sources (right way) or download archive with precompiled ready to use libs (lazy way).

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Lazy way

• Download archive with static QT build.

  • x86
    Visual Studio 2013 qt-5_7_1-x86-msvc2013-static.7z
    Visual Studio 2015 qt-5_7_1-x86-msvc2015-static.7z
    Visual Studio 2017 qt-5_7_1-x86-msvc2017-static.7z

  • x64
    Visual Studio 2017 qt-5_7_1-x64-msvc2017-static.7z
    Visual Studio 2019 qt-5_7_1-x64-msvc2019-static.7z

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• Unpack it somewhere, for example to C:\QT. You should get C:\QT\qt-5_7_1-x86-msvc2013-static, C:\QT\qt-5_7_1-x86-msvc2015-static or C:\QT\qt-5_7_1-x86-msvc2017-static after unpack

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• Go to Setup Visual Studio to work with QT

Right way

Prerequisites

• Python is necessary for building QT from sources. Download and install Python for Windows somewhere. This instruction implies that it is installed in C:\Tools\Python

• Perl also can be handy. Download and install Perl for Windows somewhere. This instruction implies that it is installed in C:\Tools\Perl

• jom. jom is a clone of nmake to support the execution of multiple independent commands in parallel. It works much faster than nmake on PC with multicore CPU. Download binary package and unpack somewhere. This instruction implies that it is unpacked to C:\Tools\jom

Build steps

• Download QT sources from here: https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/ I recommend to use QT version 5.7.1 atm. This version is not newest one, but GLideN64 has simple GUI and does not use fancy features. Instruction below corresponds to 5.7.1 Different version may require different steps.

• Unpack downloaded archive somewhere, for example C:\QT\qt-everywhere-opensource-src

• Go to C:\QT\qt-everywhere-opensource-src\qtbase\mkspecs\common folder. In that folder find file msvc-desktop.conf. Open it in any text editor and replace all occurrences of "-MD" by "-MT", case sensitive.
  Important: If you use Visual Studio 2013, find in this file line MAKEFILE_GENERATOR = MSVC.NET and remove it.
  Save your changes.

• Decide, where your want to see compiled QT build. For example, C:\Qt\qt-5_7_1-x86-msvc2015-static

• Open Visual Studio command prompt. In command line window type

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cd C:\QT\qt-everywhere-opensource-src

SET _ROOT=C:\QT\qt-everywhere-opensource-src

SET PATH=%_ROOT%\qtbase\bin;%_ROOT%\gnuwin32\bin;%PATH%

SET PATH=C:\Tools\Python;C:\Tools\Perl\bin;C:\Tools\jom;%PATH%

SET _ROOT=

configure -no-freetype -qt-libpng -qt-zlib -qt-pcre -qt-libjpeg -c++std c++11 -mp -debug-and-release -opensource -confirm-license -static -make libs -nomake tools -nomake examples -nomake tests -prefix C:\Qt\qt-5_7_1-x86-msvc2015-static -platform win32-msvc2015 -opengl desktop -no-openssl

jom

jom install

• Build will take time. Wait.

Setup Visual Studio to work with QT

• You need QT add-in for Visual Studio.
  For Visual Studio 2013 download the add-in from download page. Install.
  For Visual Studio 2015 or newer, open Tools=>Extensions and Updates=>Online. Search for QT. Install QT Visual Studio tools.

• Restart Visual Studio.

• Open Visual Studio solution GLideN64.sln It is located in projects/msvc folder

• Open QT5 - QTOptions dialog and add path to your QT build

• Right click on GLideN64 solution and select Change Solution QT version. Select your build.

• Select "Debug" or "Release" configuration.

• Build GLideNUI project.

How to build GLideN64

• Open solution GLideN64.sln It is located in projects/msvc folder

• To build the debug version select configuration "Debug" To build the release version select configuration "Release"

• Select platform. win32 for 32bit emulators, x64 for 64bit ones.

• Press F7 or choose Build > Build solution from the menu bar.

• After successful build resulted files will be copied to folder, which you set in environment variable - N64PluginsDir for 32bit build, N64PluginsDir_x64 for 64bit build.