Building appleseed on Windows using prebuilt dependencies

If you are using Visual Studio 2012, it is much quicker to build appleseed using our prebuilt dependencies.

You will still need working installations of Qt and Boost; see our guide Building appleseed on Windows for directions.

Downloading and installing dependencies

1. Locate the latest release of the dependency package in https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed-deps/releases.
2. Download both the binaries and the sources:
3. Extract the binaries inside a build\ directory in your appleseed source directory.
4. Extract the 3rdparty directory (not its contents!) of the source archive into your appleseed source directory. It should look like that:

Building appleseed

Continue with the standard Windows build guide to build appleseed and configure the Visual Studio solution.