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Compiling
Banshee is available on two branches:
- preview - This branch always contains latest "stable" pre-release version.
- master - This branch contains the latest changes, might be quite unstable and might not even compile. Use this if you absolutely need the bleeding edge changes.
It can be compiled using:
- MSVC++ 14.0 (Visual Studio 2015)
- Clang
Use CMake to generate a VS solution, makefile or other type of build file. CMake root file is available at Source/CMakeLists.txt.
Banshee currently only compiles on Windows, but Mac & Linux ports are coming soon.
Third party dependencies
Aside from the source code you will also need various third party dependencies. You may retrieve/compile those dependencies yourself by following a guide in "CompilingDependenciesManually.txt" (provided with the source code).
Optionally, if you are using VS2015 you can avoid compiling dependencies by downloading the archive below, containing a set of pre-compiled dependencies. These should be extracted in the root of the directory containing Banshee source code.
Download dependencies (VS2015)
For older versions check the git release tag descriptions for links.
Windows dependencies
For Windows additional dependencies not included in the dependencies package are needed.
Make sure to:
- Install Windows SDK if on Windows 8 or higher.
- Install DirectX SDK.
- Set up DXSDK_DIR environment variable to point to the SDK install directory.
- Install DirectX Debug Layer in Windows 10:
- Settings panel->System->Apps & features->Manage optional Features->Add a feature->Select "Graphics Tools"
Data files
You will also need data files (non-code resources like images, shaders, etc.) in order to run the editor, engine and example projects.
For older versions check the git release tag descriptions for links.