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title: Defold development for the Windows platform

brief: This manual describes how to build and run Defold applications on Windows

Windows development

Developing Defold applications for the Windows platform is a straight forward process with very few considerations to make.

Project settings

Windows specific application configuration is done from the Windows section of the game.project settings file.

Application icon

The application icon used for a Windows game must be in the .ico format. You can easily create a .ico file from a .png file using an online tool such as ICOConvert or AConvert. Upload an image and use at least the following icon sizes: 16x16, 24x24, 32x32, 48x48, 256x256.

Source: Microsoft - Windows app icon construction

Creating .ico file locally using ImageMagick software suite.

Example for Linux:

  1. Install ImageMagick:

    sudo apt install imagemagick

  2. Prepare your PNG icon.

  3. Convert PNG to ICO using convert tool:

    convert icon_256x256px.png -compress None -define icon:auto-resize=256,128,96,64,48,32,24,16 favicon.ico

FAQ

:Windows FAQ