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Chris Cannam, 2013-03-28 03:18 PM

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h1. Building SV v2.1 for Windows
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It should now be possible to build Sonic Visualiser on Windows using the Qt Creator IDE. A special branch of the SV code is available which includes all the dependency libraries pre-built for your compiling and linking pleasure.
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h2. Get the right branch
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Start by checking out the @with-dependencies@ branch from Mercurial:
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@$ hg clone -b with-dependencies https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/hg/sonic-visualiser@
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h2. Use the right build configuration
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Open the main @sonic-visualiser.pro@ project in Qt5 Creator.
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Configure for
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 * a *release build* -- the debug build dependencies are not correctly set at the time of writing
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 * using *g++/MinGW tools* -- the MSVC compiler is not supported
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 * and *disable shadow build* -- it will only link if built in-place in the source tree