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Renamed 'quckstart' to be mingw specific. Technically Game-premake is quicker, and all options should be explained before one is shown.

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## Quick start
## 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.
### Compilers
For compilers on windows there are two popular choices.
#### Visual Studio
This is the industry standard IDE for working on windows. A free version is available as the community edition.
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/
*Note* Visual studio is large and somewhat resource intensive, you should have a recently modern computer to use it.
#### MinGW-W64/GCC
This is an open source C/C++ toolchain that is very lightweight. The best way to get MinGW-W64 and GCC is via the W64Devkit
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.
## Game-Premake, the simple solution to get started quickly.
The game premake system is quite honestly the simplest way to get started on windows. It is a solution that uses premake to generate a build system specifically for raylib for you. It handles everything including setting up raylib.
https://github.com/raylib-extras/game-premake
It works with many compilers on windows, linux and mac OS.
Simply follow the instructions in that link and you will be done. If you use game-premake you can ingore the rest of this document
## Other methods
If you do not want to use game-premake, you have several options
## Manual Setup with W64Devkit
1. Download `w64devkit-x.xx.x.zip` from https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit
> Unzip to `c:\w64devkit`
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6. Run：
> `./raylibhelloworld.exe`
## 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.
### Compilers
For compilers on windows there are two popular choices.
#### Visual Studio
This is the industry standard IDE for working on windows. A free version is available as the community edition.
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/
*Note* Visual studio is large and somewhat resource intensive, you should have a recently modern computer to use it.
#### MinGW-W64/GCC
This is an open source C/C++ toolchain that is very lightweight. The best way to get MinGW-W64 and GCC is via the W64Devkit
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.
## Game-Premake, the simple solution to get started quickly.
The game premake system is quite honestly the simplest way to get started on windows. It is a solution that uses premake to generate a build system specifically for raylib for you. It handles everything including setting up raylib.
https://github.com/raylib-extras/game-premake
It works with many compilers on windows, linux and mac OS.
Simply follow the instructions in that link and you will be done. If you use game-premake you can ingore the rest of this document
## Other methods
If you do not want to use game-premake, you have several options
### Build raylib using make
Using MinGW make tool, just navigate from command line to `raylib/src/` folder and type: