Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
25 lines (20 loc) · 1014 Bytes

windows.md

File metadata and controls

25 lines (20 loc) · 1014 Bytes
Raw

Compiling ImHex on Windows

On Windows, ImHex is built through msys2 / mingw's gcc.

  1. Download and install msys2 from their website.
  2. Open the MSYS2 MinGW x64 shell
  3. Clone the repo using git clone https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex --recurse-submodules
  4. Install all the dependencies using ./ImHex/dist/get_deps_msys2.sh
  5. Build ImHex itself using the following commands:
cd ImHex
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "Ninja"                          \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release              \
  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="./install"      \
  -DIMHEX_USE_DEFAULT_BUILD_SETTINGS=ON   \
  ..
ninja install

ImHex will look for any extra resources either in various folders directly next to the executable or in %localappdata%/imhex

For low RAM-usage system, you can use mingw32-make -j N install instead, to reduce RAM usage at compile time. Where N is amount of jobs you are willling to run at once. Roughly ~1 GB of RAM usage per job.