#Building Guide for Fractorium Using MSVC2013 and Qt Creator (64 bit)
##Requirements

Install git.

Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 or later, then install the latest updates.

Install Qt for Windows 64-bit (VS 2013) 5.4 or later (http://www.qt.io/download/). 

##Get this project
Open up the Visual Studio x64 Native Tools Command Prompt

Create a folder named fractorium:

`mkdir fractorium
`cd fractorium
`git clone https://github.com/mfeemster/fractorium.git

##Prerequisites
There are six prerequisite dependencies. Two of them must be downloaded manually, and the rest can be cloned from git.

[libjpeg](http://www.ijg.org/) 
[tbb](https://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/download)

Extract them into the folder you created such that they are arranged like so:

```
[fractorium]
│  
├─libjpeg
├─tbb
```

Go into the fractorium folder and run this script which will get the rest of the prerequisites and build them:

`cd fractorium
`makedeps.bat

Now you should already have these files in the folder:

    ```
    libjpeg.lib
    libpng.lib
    libxml2.lib
    libxml2.dll
    tbb.dll
    tbb.lib
    zlib.lib
    ```
**All Done!**  
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You shuold have a folder structure like this:

```
[YOUR ROOT FOLDER]
│  
├─glm
├─libjpeg
├─libpng
├─libxml2
├─tbb
└─fractorium
```

##Begin to build
Open Qt Project `fractorium/main.pro` using Qt Creator with config like *Desktop Qt 5.5.1 MSVC2013 OpenGL 64bit*  
Select "shadow build" in "Edit build configuration" for both `Debug` and `Release`

Switch to `Release` configuration for all projects and Build.

You can find outputs under `fractorium\Bin\release` several minutes later if no error occurs.

```
Ember.dll
Ember.exp
Ember.lib
emberanimate.exe
EmberCL.dll
EmberCL.exp
EmberCL.lib
embergenome.exe
emberrender.exe
fractorium.exe
```

To run it, just double click any of the .exe files.

To run it on a machine which does not have Qt installed, put the .exe and .dll files above along with these files together in one folder
```
Qt5.5.1\5.5\msvc2013_64\bin\Qt5Core.dll
Qt5.5.1\5.5\msvc2013_64\bin\Qt5Gui.dll
Qt5.5.1\5.5\msvc2013_64\bin\Qt5Widgets.dll
Qt5.5.1\5.5\msvc2013_64\plugins\platforms\qwindows.dll  (put in folder "platforms")
Deps\libxml2.dll
Deps\tbb.dll
fractorium\Data\dark.qss
fractorium\Data\flam3-palettes.xml
```

To run on a computer without Visual Studio 2013, these files also need to be in the folder:

```
MSVC2013\VC\redist\x64\Microsoft.VC120.CRT\msvcp120.dll
MSVC2013\VC\redist\x64\Microsoft.VC120.CRT\msvcr120.dll
MSVC2013\VC\redist\x64\Microsoft.VC120.CRT\vccorlib120.dll
```

or you can install *Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013 (64 bit)*

####Final file structure

```
[YOUR FOLDER]
│  dark.qss
│  Ember.dll
│  emberanimate.exe
│  EmberCL.dll
│  embergenome.exe
│  emberrender.exe
│  flam3-palettes.xml
│  fractorium.exe
│  libxml2.dll
│  Qt5Core.dll
│  Qt5Gui.dll
│  Qt5OpenGL.dll
│  Qt5Widgets.dll
│  tbb.dll
│ 
│  vccorlib120.dll   (optional)
│  msvcp120.dll      (optional)
│  msvcr120.dll      (optional)
│  
└─platforms
        qwindows.dll
```

####Have Fun!