Compiling Dolphin on Windows Without Admin?

Zopolis4 · 10-28-2021, 03:35 PM #1

I've been making some changes to dolphin, but I'm using a computer without admin, and it is very tedious to keep switching computers (I can't work on the computer with admin, its too slow). I know that using Visual Studio needs admin, but I was wondering if it would be possible to create Windows binaries via cmake on MSYS2 or similar (preferably not cygwin).

**mbc07** · 10-28-2021, 06:04 PM #2

You shouldn't need administrative rights to compile Dolphin. You'll need them for installing Visual Studio, though...

Zopolis4 · 10-28-2021, 06:30 PM #3

Thats the issue, so I was wondering how to use cmake instead.

**JosJuice** · 10-29-2021, 12:23 AM #4

We don't officially support any way of building for Windows other than MSVC, and I don't think anyone has tested it either. So you're kind of on your own if you want to go down this route.

Zopolis4 · 11-08-2021, 12:13 PM #5

Ok well I got MSVC, is there any other way to use it than MSBuild? Because that fails for me due to the standard C++ libraries being missing.

**JosJuice** · 11-09-2021, 02:17 AM #6

Yes, MSVC with CMake is supported. But I would advise trying to fix the problem with the missing libraries, because you'll need those libraries regardless of whether you use MSBuild or CMake.

Zopolis4 · 11-19-2021, 12:21 PM #7

Went through quite a bit with msbuild, eventually ended up moving over to cygwin/mingw64/msys2. Cygwin generated the makefiles, and after adding a few #define _GNU_SOURCE in some common files, and a platform check in SFML it now breaks on long unsigned ints.

Zopolis4 · 11-26-2021, 06:19 PM #8

I ended up giving up, but in case this is helpful to anyone else I used a Win 11 SDK install from here:https://github.com/Zopolis4/VisualCppInstaller and a copy of Visual Studio Build Tools installed into a local directory via command line parameters on a pc with admin.