Please update it for future VS versions rather than creating a new one. Maintainers: This guide is currently valid for Visual Studio 2019. ui files, see the instructions for Qt Creator and MSVC instead. If you are familiar with the QtCreator IDE or want a better experience editing. And all this without trying to compile ROOT, as I mentioned.Note: These instructions are for building MuseScore using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 (VS) integrated development environment with the Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) compiler.

So I only added the “Desktop development with C++”, but even this one has many subcomponents which may or may not be needed, and I might be missing something else and just haven’t found out or maybe a clean Windows install needs more (I already had other software, including MS Office, for instance, which may have installed some other needed stuff). exe installer, let it add root/bin to path variable, or add it manually.Ĥ - ROOT should now run on any command prompt.

(select “develop for Desktop using C++ on my Windows machine”)Ģ - Run VS installer, select component “Desktop development with C++”, leave all else as per default (needed disk space ~7-8 GB).ģ - Install ROOT with its. I have not tried to compile ROOT on Windows 10, but at least I found in a test a couple of months ago that it ran by doing this:ġ - Download VS Community 2019 installer from In particular, for example, Visual Studio is huge and has a lot of components, and it’s not clear which one/s is/are really needed for ROOT (downloading everything just in case is not so nice, as it’s many, many GB). Ì think that page can still be improved a bit.

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