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Added a step by step guide

I have added a step by step guide at the end of the original, i had tons of issued for lack of knowledge on how to work with visual studio, this guide has been provided by @douggorgen and helped me to make it work.
Italo Soares 5 years ago
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 \*) Specifically, the problem arises when building boost. Boost build tool appends all build options into paths of
 intermediate files, which are not handled correctly by either `b2.exe` or possibly `ninja` (?).
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+# Noob guide (step by step)
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+Install Visual Studio Community 2019 from
+visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/
+Select all workload options for C++ 
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+Install git for Windows from
+gitforwindows.org
+download and run the exe accepting all defaults
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+download PrusaSlicer-master.zip from github
+I downloaded this to c:\PrusaSlicer and unzipped to c:\PrusaSlicer\PrusaSlicer-master\ so this will be my prefix for all my steps. Substitute your prefix.
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+Go to the Windows Start Menu and Click on "Visual Studio 2019" folder, then select the ->"x64 Native Tools Command Prompt" to open a command window
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+cd c:\PrusaSlicer\PrusaSlicer-master\deps
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+mkdir build
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+cd build
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+cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -DDESTDIR="c:\PrusaSlicer\PrusaSlicer-master"
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+msbuild /m ALL_BUILD.vcxproj // This took 13.5 minutes on my machine: core I7-7700K @ 4.2Ghz with 32GB main memory and 20min on a average laptop
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+cd c:\PrusaSlicer\PrusaSlicer-master\
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+mkdir build
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+cd build
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+cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="c:\PrusaSlicer\PrusaSlicer-master\usr\local"
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+open Visual Studio for c++ development (VS asks this the first time you start it)
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+Open->Project/Solution or File->Open->Project/Solution (depending on which dialog comes up first)
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+click on c:\PrusaSlicer\PrusaSlicer-master\build\PrusaSlicer.sln
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+Debug->Start Debugging or Debug->Start Without debugging
+PrusaSlicer should start. You're up and running!
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+note: Thanks to @douggorgen for the original guide, as an answer for a issue