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# Building Slic3r PE on Microsoft Windows
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The currently supported way of building Slic3r PE on Windows is with CMake and MS Visual Studio 2013
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using our Perl binary distribution (compiled from official Perl sources).
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You can use the free [Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition](https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/older-downloads/).
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CMake installer can be downloaded from [the official website](https://cmake.org/download/).
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Other setups (such as mingw + Strawberry Perl) _may_ work, but we cannot guarantee this will work
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and cannot provide guidance.
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### Geting the dependencies
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First, download and upnack our Perl + wxWidgets binary distribution:
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  - 32 bit, release mode: [wperl32-5.24.0-2018-03-02.7z](https://bintray.com/vojtechkral/Slic3r-PE/download_file?file_path=wperl32-5.24.0-2018-03-02.7z)
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  - 64 bit, release mode: [wperl64-5.24.0-2018-03-02.7z](https://bintray.com/vojtechkral/Slic3r-PE/download_file?file_path=wperl64-5.24.0-2018-03-02.7z)
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  - 64 bit, release mode + debug symbols: [wperl64d-5.24.0-2018-03-02.7z](https://bintray.com/vojtechkral/Slic3r-PE/download_file?file_path=wperl64d-5.24.0-2018-03-02.7z)
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It is recommended to unpack this package into `C:\`.
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Apart from wxWidgets and Perl, you will also need additional dependencies:
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  - Boost
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  - Intel TBB
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  - libcurl
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We have prepared a binary package of the listed libraries:
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  - 32 bit: [slic3r-destdir-32.7z](https://bintray.com/vojtechkral/Slic3r-PE/download_file?file_path=2%2Fslic3r-destdir-32.7z)
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  - 64 bit: [slic3r-destdir-64.7z](https://bintray.com/vojtechkral/Slic3r-PE/download_file?file_path=2%2Fslic3r-destdir-64.7z)
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It is recommended you unpack this package into `C:\local\` as the environment
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setup script expects it there.
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Alternatively you can also compile the additional dependencies yourself.
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There is a [powershell script](./deps-build/windows/slic3r-makedeps.ps1) which automates this process.
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### Building Slic3r PE
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Once the dependencies are set up in their respective locations,
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go to the `wperl*` directory extracted earlier and launch the `cmdline.lnk` file
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which opens a command line prompt with appropriate environment variables set up.
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In this command line, `cd` into the directory with Slic3r sources
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and use these commands to build the Slic3r from the command line:
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    perl Build.PL
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    perl Build.PL --gui
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    mkdir build
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    cd build
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    cmake .. -G "NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
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    nmake
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    cd ..
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    perl slic3r.pl
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The above commands use `nmake` Makefiles.
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You may also build Slic3r PE with other build tools:
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### Building with Visual Studio
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To build and debug Slic3r PE with Visual Studio (64 bits), replace the `cmake` command with:
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    cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 12 Win64" -DCMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES=RelWithDebInfo
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For the 32-bit variant, use:
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    cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 12" -DCMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES=RelWithDebInfo
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After `cmake` has finished, go to the build directory and open the `Slic3r.sln` solution file.
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This should open Visual Studio and load the Slic3r solution containing all the projects.
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Make sure you use Visual Studio 2013 to open the solution.
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You can then use the usual Visual Studio controls to build Slic3r (Hit `F5` to build and run with debugger).
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If you want to run or debug Slic3r from within Visual Studio, make sure the `XS` project is activated.
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It should be set as the Startup project by CMake by default, but you might want to check anyway.
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There are multiple projects in the Slic3r solution, but only the `XS` project is configured with the right
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commands to run and debug Slic3r.
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The above cmake commands generate Visual Studio project files with the `RelWithDebInfo` configuration only.
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If you also want to use the `Release` configuration, you can generate Visual Studio projects with:
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    -DCMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES=Release;RelWithDebInfo
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(The `Debug` configuration is not supported as of now.)
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### Building with ninja
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To use [Ninja](https://ninja-build.org/), replace the `cmake` and `nmake` commands with:
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    cmake .. -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
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    ninja
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