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## Windows
Only cross-compiling from Linux is supported and tested in CI, but building
under MSYS should also work.
### Cross-compile from Linux
See [`windows/cross-compile`](windows/cross-compile).
### Native
#### Qt
Download the Qt online installer for Windows from
[qt.io](https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/). While installation you have
to assemble your Qt toolchain. Take the most recent version of Qt compiled with
MinGW. Although the installer provides its own bundled MinGW compiler toolchain
its recommend installing it separately because Qt is missing MSYS which is
needed to compile and install OpenAL. Thus you can - if needed - deselect the
tab `Tools`. The following steps assume that Qt is installed at `C:\Qt`. If you
decided to choose another location, replace corresponding parts.
#### MinGW
Download the MinGW installer for Windows from
[sourceforge.net](http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/). Make
sure to install MSYS (a set of Unix tools for Windows). The following steps
assume that MinGW is installed at `C:\MinGW`. If you decided to choose another
location, replace corresponding parts. Select `mingw-developer-toolkit`,
`mingw32-base`, `mingw32-gcc-g++`, `msys-base` and `mingw32-pthreads-w32`
packages using MinGW Installation Manager (`mingw-get.exe`). Check that the
version of MinGW, corresponds to the version of the QT component!
#### Wget
Download the Wget installer for Windows from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm. Install them. The following
steps assume that Wget is installed at `C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\`. If you
decided to choose another location, replace corresponding parts.
#### UnZip
Download the UnZip installer for Windows from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/unzip.htm. Install it. The following
steps assume that UnZip is installed at `C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\`. If you
decided to choose another location, replace corresponding parts.
#### Setting up Path
Add MinGW/MSYS/CMake binaries to the system path to make them globally
accessible. Open `Control Panel` -> `System and Security` -> `System` ->
`Advanced system settings` -> `Environment Variables...` (or run `sysdm.cpl`
select tab `Advanced system settings` -> button `Environment Variables`). In the
second box search for the `PATH` variable and press `Edit...`. The input box
`Variable value:` should already contain some directories. Each directory is
separated with a semicolon. Extend the input box by adding
`;C:\MinGW\bin;C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake 2.8\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin`.
The very first semicolon must only be added if it is missing. CMake may be added
by installer automatically. Make sure that paths containing alternative `sh`,
`bash` implementations such as `C:\Program Files\OpenSSH\bin` are at the end of
`PATH` or build may fail.
#### Cloning the Repository
Clone the repository (https://github.com/qTox/qTox.git) with your preferred Git
client. [SmartGit](http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/) or
[TorteiseGit](https://tortoisegit.org) are both very nice for this task
(you may need to add `git.exe` to your `PATH` system variable). The
following steps assume that you cloned the repository at `C:\qTox`. If you
decided to choose another location, replace corresponding parts.
#### Getting dependencies
Run `bootstrap.bat` in the previously cloned `C:\qTox` repository. The script will
download the other necessary dependencies, compile them and put them into their
appropriate directories.
Note that there have been detections of false positives by some anti virus software
in the past within some of the libraries used. Please refer to the wiki page
[problematic antiviruses](https://github.com/qTox/qTox/wiki/Problematic-antiviruses)
for more information if you run into troubles on that front.
## Compile-time switches
They are passed as an argument to `cmake` command. E.g. with a switch `SWITCH`