From bd0d87ecaf8289936e4bb02acb69566776e54d45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tahir Akhlaq Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 01:10:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updates ReadMe for Windows (#3713) - Includes prebuilt libraries in instructions --- README.md | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e846121833..d27b81186d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -49,13 +49,21 @@ To initialize the repository don't forget to execute `git submodule update --ini *If you're using Visual Studio 2017 without Qt plugin support (or simply dont want to use it):* 1) Add `QTDIR` environment variable and set it to `\5.8\msvc2015_64\`
+ +Open `rpcs3.sln` + + *If you wish to use the Visual Studio plugin for Qt:*
1) Go to the Qt5 menu and edit Qt5 options. Add the path to your Qt installation with compiler e.g. `C:\Qt\5.8\msvc2015_64`.
2) While selecting the rpcs3qt project, go to Qt5->Project Setting and select the version you added. ### Building the projects -1) Build the projects in *__BUILD_BEFORE* folder: right-click on every project > *Build*.
-2) Press *BUILD* > *Build Solution* or *Rebuild Solution*.
+You may want to download precompiled [LLVM lib](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B8A6NaxhQAGRY2k3Q2Yya05lcm8) and extract to root rpcs3 folder (which contains `rpcs3.sln`), as well as download and extract [additional libs](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B8A6NaxhQAGRaHYxV3VOS2d0a0U) to `lib\%CONFIGURATION%-x64\` to speed up compilation time (unoptimised/debug libs are currently not available precompiled). + +If you're not using precompiled libs, build the projects in *__BUILD_BEFORE* folder: right-click on every project > *Build*.

+ +`Build > Build Solution`
+ ## Building on Linux & Mac OS: