History: Prerequisites V2

Prerequisites V2 What you need to build Ogre from source.

Introduction

This is a small check list of things you need to do before you're ready to build Ogre from source.

CMake

Download CMake from https://cmake.org/ and run the installer.

Install paths Make sure that Cmake and the project are both installed in a folder with no spaces and latin characters only. Compiler Specific Prerequisites Visual Studio Best thing is to start with the latest version of Visual Studio. Download Download 'Visual Studio Community Free' from https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads and run vs_community_ENU.exe (installation takes about half and hour) MinGW Get the latest MinGW installer from here and install MinGW. Make sure to include the C++ compiler (it is the only required compiler for Ogre, but installing all of them doesn't hurt). You most likely do not want the full "MinGW Developer Toolkit", but you should check the "MSYS Basic System". Install it to C:\mingw. Also add C:\mingw\bin to your PATH. The installer might ask if it should do that for you, but if you did not install with admin rights, this likely did not work. In any case, you should check and make sure it is correctly added to your PATH. DirectX If you want to use DirectX in Ogre3D, the 'Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 10' is required (if you are using Windows 10 of course). Download it from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk. Run 'sdksetup.exe' and install the SDK (this will take some time). Mandatory for compiling SDL2 however, is the use of the DirectX Software Development Kit 'DirectX 9 SDK (DX SDK June 2010)'; this version is not used by Ogre3D V2+ (because it doesn't use DirectX 9 anymore), but it is only used for SDL2. SDL2 is used by the tutorials and samples, which are part of the Ogre source. Download DirectX 9 SDK from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=6812. Run the downloaded 'DXSDK_Jun10.exe'. Dependencies A repository containing a all sources of the Ogre dependencies (along with the necessary CMake scripts) is available here at Bitbucket. Make sure to read the instructions. Also to read our CMake Guide if you haven't yet.