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Windows#

The 'Windows' Target#

Monkey2 can use either the mingw or Microsoft VisualStudio Express 2015 compilers to build desktop apps.

To use mingw, you can use the mingw build tools at monkeycoder.co.nz/monkey2-files.
Simply download the mingw build tools package, run it (it's a self extracting exe), and select your monkey2 'devtools' dir for installation.

Note that the prebuilt binaries available from itch.io already include mingw in the 'devtools' dir.

To use MSVC instead of mingw, you will need to install MSVC Express 2015 and change the following line in bin/env_windows.txt:

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#MX2_USE_MSVC=1

You will need to rebuild all desktop modules after doing this.

Downloads for MSVC Express can be found here: Visual Studio Express.