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bpo-31691: Specify how to build installer in Windows (#4430)
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For other Windows platforms and compilers, see ../PC/readme.txt.
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All you need to do to build is open the solution "pcbuild.sln" in Visual
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Studio, select the desired combination of configuration and platform,
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To build modules that depend on external libraries, you need to download
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(and, for some of them, build) those first. It's thus recommended to build
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from the command line once as specified below under "Getting External Sources"
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as that does this automatically.
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Then, to continue development, you can open the solution "pcbuild.sln" in
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Visual Studio, select the desired combination of configuration and platform,
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then build with "Build Solution". You can also build from the command
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line using the "build.bat" script in this directory; see below for
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details. The solution is configured to build the projects in the correct
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order.
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To build an installer package, refer to the README in the Tools/msi folder.
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The solution currently supports two platforms. The Win32 platform is
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used to build standard x86-compatible 32-bit binaries, output into this
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directory. The x64 platform is used for building 64-bit AMD64 (aka

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