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## Building Raylib on Windows
## Building raylib on Windows
There are several ways to get setup on Windows. This page will go through them from the easiest to the most difficult.
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https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit/
Download the w64devkit zip file, unzip it and run W64Devkit.exe. that will give you a terminal that is ready to go.
*Note* that old MinGW (Not w64) from mingw.org will not work with Raylib. You need to use MinGW-w64.
*Note* that old MinGW (Not w64) from mingw.org will not work with raylib. You need to use MinGW-w64.
*MSYS2 Note* We do not recommend using MSYS2 to get GCC, even though several tutorials suggest it. It can be difficult to configure properly and does not always include all the things needed for a complete development system. The W64-Devkit is a much better way to get the needed toolchain for building games with Raylib.
*MSYS2 Note* We do not recommend using MSYS2 to get GCC, even though several tutorials suggest it. It can be difficult to configure properly and does not always include all the things needed for a complete development system. The W64-Devkit is a much better way to get the needed toolchain for building games with raylib.
## Raylib-Quickstart, the simple solution to get started quickly.
## raylib-quickstart, the simple solution to get started quickly.
The quickstart is a cross platform template for all desktop platforms that will setup raylib automatically.
https://github.com/raylib-extras/raylib-quickstart
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## Compile using Zig tools (cross platform)
This guide should work across all platforms, but the example is demonstrated on Windows.
1. Download and unzip Raylib to a directory, e.g., `C:\raylib`.
1. Download and unzip raylib to a directory, e.g., `C:\raylib`.
2. Place your C file in any desired location.
3. Compile the C (i.e., test.c) file using the following command:
`zig cc -o test.exe test.c -I"C:\raylib\include" "C:\raylib\lib\libraylib.a" -lopengl32 -lgdi32 -lwinmm`
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int main() {
const int screenWidth = 800;
const int screenHeight = 600;
InitWindow(screenWidth, screenHeight, "Raylib basic window");
InitWindow(screenWidth, screenHeight, "raylib basic window");
SetTargetFPS(60);
while (!WindowShouldClose()) {
BeginDrawing();
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### Installing and building raylib via vcpkg
You can download and install Raylib using the [vcpkg](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg) dependency manager:
You can download and install raylib using the [vcpkg](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg) dependency manager:
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
cd vcpkg
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Just open `raylib/src/raylib.h` source file on Notepad++ and execute (F6) the script `raylib_source_compile`
## A note on dependencies
Raylib includes all of it's own external dependencies on windows. There are only 2 system libraries that need to be linked to raylib for a game to work.
raylib includes all of it's own external dependencies on windows. There are only 2 system libraries that need to be linked to raylib for a game to work.
* GDI32: This is the interface to the window setup and drawing functions that raylib and GLFW need to work on Windows.
* WinMM: This is contains the high resolution timer code used by GLFW for precise timing in the game loop.