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

[solarmystic]

@Oblivion

Thanks for the feedback, I was wondering whether or not it worked on your end.

And thanks for the last bit about the dx9sdk submodule too, that portion of the FAQ was written long before that submodule became a mandatory requirement.

It's rather odd that the "git submodule update --init" line would freeze the terminal like that. It sometimes takes quite a while for the program to enumerate all of the files to determine which ones to update, especially if there's been a major submodule update recently (e.g. the FFMPEG one), but it should not ever completely freeze it. That's abnormal, and it hasn't ever happened to me before.

[bhavin192]

@solarmystic

It's not needed anymore to download DX SDK
https://github.com/hrydgard/minidx9

needed files are included their

Read last five comments from here
https://github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp/issues/4268

[solarmystic]

(05-20-2014 04:41 AM)bhavin192 Wrote:  @solarmystic

It's not needed anymore to download DX SDK
https://github.com/hrydgard/minidx9

needed files are included their

Read last five comments from here
https://github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp/issues/4268

I thought that (minidx9) only applied to the release builds. I was under the impression that debug builds still required the DX SDK to be built and debugged in the compiler.

I just uninstalled the DX SDK and the debug build still compiled successfully and entered debugging mode with no issues.

I have removed that requirement now, thanks for the correction.

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Updated guide to remove DX SDK prerequisite. PPSSPP compiling (for both Release and Debug builds) only requires MSVC 2013 and a form of git. Users can safely uninstall the SDK from their systems if they've got no other applications that require it to gain some HDD space.

[TheDax]

That submodule was mostly included for the buildbot, to be fair. I wouldn't necessarily count on it being there forever, though I can't speak for Henrik or Orphis. But for now, yeah, the DX SDK isn't needed.

[giga07]

plz help how to change may ppsspp version to level99procrastinator build on github i tried each commit thats hes the author but always fatal: not repository etc...i really want that fix on psp2..plz someone help me...or you can send me a compile ppsspp with that fix...i hope you can help me on this T_T

[GuilhermeGS2]

I tried to compile PPSSPP in two different computers, I'm getting a lot of fatal erros code C1083. Some of them say it can't open "d3d11.h" and "d3d9.h", I have DirectX SDK installed.

[LunaMoo]

Make sure you inited / updated all submodules(git submodule update --init --recursive), that's typical problem most inexperienced people will have and probably would cause your problem since we include stuff required for d3d backends as a minimalistic submodule.

Other problems on windows at least could be caused by Visual Studio version ~ PPSSPP supports currently 2015 and 2017 versions(community edition is fine). You also have to make sure to install XP compatible compiler and older SDK(8.1) as PPSSPP unfortunately still supports that ancient operating system so we can't build against latest windows SDK.

[GuilhermeGS2]

(01-26-2018 04:21 PM)LunaMoo Wrote:  Make sure you inited / updated all submodules(git submodule update --init --recursive), that's typical problem most inexperienced people will have and probably would cause your problem since we include stuff required for d3d backends as a minimalistic submodule.

Other problems on windows at least could be caused by Visual Studio version ~ PPSSPP supports currently 2015 and 2017 versions(community edition is fine). You also have to make sure to install XP compatible compiler and older SDK(8.1) as PPSSPP unfortunately still supports that ancient operating system so we can't build against latest windows SDK.

I'm using Visual Studio 2017 Community because 2015 can't be downloaded anywhere. I tried on Windows 7 and Windows 10 PCs, I had to install XP support, this was the first issue I had, have Windows 8.1 SDK installed too. I'm having issues trying to compile for Android too, with Eclipse it only builds a 2,59 MB APK, with Android Studio it says there's something wrong with CMake...I don't know what to do anymore.

[LunaMoo]

As I said, both are supported and there's almost no difference between VS 2015 and 2017, althrough some update of the latter broke 32 builds due to some optimization, I think it was quickly fixed through(on VS side, that was never a ppsspp problem;p), I'm too lazy to make 32 bit build just to check, you should be building for 64 bit anyway unless planning to use some very old pc with windows XP or something;p.


If you don't understand how to update submodules - which is most likely your problem for windows at least(possibly android as well where it also needs submodules and will not build without althrough will have different issues since it doesn't use d3d;p) - I would recommend installing TortoiseGIT. It's basically taking the power of git commands and placing it under right click context menu, just as powerful, but doesn't require typing lenghty commands, while showing them, so kind of teaching you correct commands anyway.

[GuilhermeGS2]

I didn't downloaded the git with Git Bash, I downloaded it from GitHub as zip file. But I'll follow all the steps in this guide and let's see what will happen. I'm trying to compile a gl-render-manager build, don't know if I can download with Git Bash or only the master.

[LunaMoo]

If you're downloading zip files, then you have to manually download all of those for every submodule and extract to correct folders separately;p. But downloading zip files sucks.

Bash is not part of git name as you appear using it, git is git, bash is bash, you don't need bash to get all power of git even through it's commonly shipped with it, windows cmd or any gui is just as good, some like tortoiseGit I mentioned earlier are very noob friendly.;p

What you downloaded was a clone of the ppsspp repository, not git. You have to download git separately ie from here.

Also with git you can keep many branches and whole history of all the changes at once, you don't need to download anything separately just fetch remote branches and switch to it or merge to master or whatever. Learn how to use it and you will see that everything is easy and you'll never have to redownload full repository nor it's submodules, just sync/update it.

[GuilhermeGS2]

@LunaMoo thanks for the help, this was the problem. Now I compiled everything fine.

And I have to say, this OpenGL threading is really fast compared to regular! Can't wait to see it working on Android.

[LunaMoo]

Slight update - XP compatibility is no longer needed, we oficially dropped support for that horribly outdated OS following Microsoft which dropped support for it in their latest toolset. This also allows latest Win SDK, so no point in installing older ones just for the sake of building PPSSPP.
In total it should save up a few gb's out of the boot drive which is always nice even through ssd's are dirt cheap right now.:3

[KATYRA]

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[KATYRA]

(02-18-2014 10:18 PM)solarmystic Wrote:  @Oblivion

Thanks for the feedback, I was wondering whether or not it worked on your end.

And thanks for the last bit about the dx9sdk submodule too, that portion of the FAQ was written long before that submodule became a mandatory requirement.

It's rather odd that the "git submodule update --init" line would freeze the terminal like that. It sometimes takes quite a while for the program to enumerate all of the files to determine which ones to update, especially if there's been a major submodule update recently (e.g. the FFMPEG one), but it should not ever completely freeze it. That's abnormal, and it hasn't ever happened to me before.

I thought that (minidx9) only applied to the release builds. I was under the impression that debug builds still required the DX SDK to be built and debugged in the compiler.