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Add information about building for the web on Windows

George Marques 9 years ago
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@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ Requirements
 
 
 To compile export templates for the Web, the following is required:
 To compile export templates for the Web, the following is required:
 
 
--  `Emscripten SDK <http://emscripten.org/>`__
+-  `Emscripten SDK <http://emscripten.org/>`__ (Install in a path without
+   spaces, i.e. not on "Program Files")
 -  `Python 2.7+ <https://www.python.org/>`__ (3.0 is
 -  `Python 2.7+ <https://www.python.org/>`__ (3.0 is
    untested as of now)
    untested as of now)
 -  `SCons <http://www.scons.org>`__ build system
 -  `SCons <http://www.scons.org>`__ build system
@@ -23,6 +24,13 @@ installation directory of Emscripten::
 
 
     export EMSCRIPTEN_ROOT=~/emsdk/emscripten/master
     export EMSCRIPTEN_ROOT=~/emsdk/emscripten/master
 
 
+If you are on Windows, start a regular prompt or the Emscripten Command Prompt.
+Do **not** use the Developer Command Prompt nor any of the ones that come with
+Visual Studio. You can set the environment variable in the system settings or
+in the prompt itself::
+
+    set EMSCRIPTEN_ROOT=C:\emsdk\emscripten\master
+
 Now go to the root directory of the engine source code and instruct SCons to
 Now go to the root directory of the engine source code and instruct SCons to
 compile for JavaScript. Specify ``target`` as either ``release`` for a release
 compile for JavaScript. Specify ``target`` as either ``release`` for a release
 build or ``release_debug`` for a debug build::
 build or ``release_debug`` for a debug build::