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.

Building Qt

See the Building Qt of the guide Building appleseed on Windows.

Building Boost C++ Libraries

See Building Boost C++ Libraries of the guide Building appleseed on Windows.

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

See Building appleseed of the guide Building appleseed on Windows.

Configuring the Visual Studio solution

See Configuring the Visual Studio solution of the guide Building appleseed on Windows.