Building for Windows

Prerequisites

• Windows 7 SP1 or higher, 64-bit version
• Visual Studio 2019
  • You can use any edition of VS (Community Edition is free)
  • Easiest to just choose "Desktop development with C++" workload
  • However, minimum required to get source and build are:
    • Git for Windows (Note: The standalone git installer is more recent and is compatible with VS)
    • C++ core features
    • Latest MSVC C++ build tools (x64/x86 and/or ARM64)
    • Latest Windows SDK
  • Recommended for development / debugging (included in workload)
    • Just-In-Time debugger
    • C++ profiling tools (pulls in graphics debugging features)
    • Test Adapter for Google Test
• clang-format 7
  • Install a 7.x version of the LLVM tools from http://releases.llvm.org
  • In VS, Options > Text Editor > C/C++ > Formatting > General, enable "Use custom clang-format.exe file" and point it to the binary.
  • You could also use Tools\lint.sh via WSL to execute a linux-native version over the dolphin sources

Get and Build Dolphin

Clone

• Windows requires pulling in some submodules, so use git clone --recursive to clone dolphin from the main repo or your fork.

Building

1. Open Source/dolphin-emu.sln.
2. Select the target you'd like to build:
   
3. Press F7 or choose Build > Build Solution from the menu bar.