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Building from source - Windows

-Note: By downloading the .zip file (or cloning the repostiory) you agree to the terms - of the Hercules Q Public Licence. +Note: By downloading the .zip file (discouraged) +or by cloning the repository (recommended) +you agree to the terms of the Hercules Q Public Licence.

  • -Hercules for Windows is built using the Microsoft Visual C (MSVC) compiler. -Refer to file README.WIN64 for details. -Note: Fish also has updated VS2015/VS2017 instructions -on his MSVC Hercules Build Instructions web page. +Hercules for Windows is built using the Microsoft Visual C/C++ (MSVC) compiler. +Fish has updated manual build instructions for VS2015 and greater (as well as VS2008too) on his +MSVC Hercules Build Instructions +web page, although as mentioned above, the by far easiest most reliable way to build Hercules +on Windows is to use Bill Lewis's +"Hercules Helper for Windows" +tool, which is designed to build Hercules using much more current versions of Visual Studio.

  • Be sure to read the Release Notes -with every new release, which contains important late-breaking information about each new release. +with every new release too, which contains important late-breaking information about each new release.

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    Windows pre-built binaries:

    1. Download one of the -pre-built binaries -from SoftDevLabs. +pre-built Official Release binaries +from +GitHub.

    2. (Optional) You might also want to install Fish's -Hercules GUI for Windows.

      +Hercules GUI for Windows +and/or one or more of his other Hercules products.

    Building from source - Mac OS X