From b371f9672176f9b08586dd6540ed621f6052233b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Birarda Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 15:41:57 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] add information for placing windows DLLs in path --- INSTALL.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md index 628d56b268..1345586972 100644 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ b/INSTALL.md @@ -91,3 +91,18 @@ Building in Visual Studio Follow the same build steps from the CMake section, but pass a different generator to CMake. cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 10" + +External Libraries +--- +We don't currently have a Windows installer, so before running Interface, you will need to ensure that all required resources are loadable. + +* In particular you must make sure all required DLLs are loadable by making sure that the folders containing them are in your path. You can accomplish this in several different ways. + + One technique is described below: + * create a directory C:\Development\HiFi\windows-dlls + * add C:\Development\HiFi\windows-dlls to your path + * copy the following files into this directory: zlib1.dll, freeglut.dll, glew32.dll + + Note: You will need to find the above DLLs from where you installed the associated dependency. + +* You also need to make the interface\resources directory available to interface.exe. To do that, copy the contents of C:\Development\HiFi\hifi\interface\resources to C:\Development\HiFi\build\interface\Debug\resources or if you're building a Release build to C:\Development\HiFi\build\interface\Release\resources \ No newline at end of file