compiling_windows

Requirements

For compiling under Windows, the following is requiered:

• Visual C++ Visual C++ or Visual C++ Express compiler.

• Python 2.7+ Python 2.7+ (3.0 is untested as of now). Using the 32-bits installer is recommended.

• SCons SCons build system.

Setting Up SCons

Python adds the interpreter (python.exe) to the path. It usually installs in C:\Python (or C:\Python[Version]). SCons installs inside the python install and provides a .bat file called "scons.bat". The location of this file can be added to the path or it can simply be copied to C:\Python together with the interpreter executable.

Compiling

Start a Visual Studio command prompt (it sets up environment variables needed by SCons to locate the compiler and SDK), go to the root dir of the engine source code and type:

C:\godot> scons bin/godot.exe

If all goes well, the resulting binary executable will be placed in C:\godot\bin\godot_win.exe. This executable file contains the whole engine and runs without any dependencies. Executing it will bring up the project manager.

Development in Visual Studio or other IDEs

For most projects, using only scripting is enough but when development in C++ is needed, for creating modules or extending the engine, working with an IDE is usually desirable. The visual studio command prompt calls a .bat file that sets up environment variables (vcvarsall.bat). To build the whole engine from a single command outside the command prompt, the following should be called in a .bat file:

C:\path_to_sdk\vcvarsall.bat &&  scons bin/godot_win.exe