Guide:- Compiling PPSSPP on Windows for Dummies (updated for MSVC 2013)

[TheDax]

This can probably be put in an appendix or something, but if you want to have your own version strings in addition to the default "vX.X.X-gXXXX" stuff, edit Windows\git-version-gen.cmd, line 66 or so to this:

Code:

echo const char *PPSSPP_GIT_VERSION = "My Custom Build String %GIT_VERSION%"; >> "%GIT_VERSION_FILE%"

Change My Custom Build String to whatever you want, and you'll still get the nifty git version tag too.
Caveat: If you want to use backslashes( \ ) in it, make sure to use two instead(so that it's escaped): \\. Otherwise you'll get build errors.

For example, I'm using

Code:

echo const char *PPSSPP_GIT_VERSION = "TheDax Customs %GIT_VERSION%"; >> "%GIT_VERSION_FILE%"

And this displays as(Click/touch for full size):