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

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(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.