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  <title>Building OVITO on Windows</title>

 <simplesect>
    <title>Installing dependencies</title>
  <para>
    OVITO for Windows is typically built using Microsoft's Visual C++ 2015 compiler. However, building
    it with the MinGW compiler should still be possible too. 
  </para>
  <para>
    More instructions how to build the required dependencies on Windows and OVITO itself
    can be found in the file <filename>doc/develop/build_windows_howto.txt</filename> after downloading the source code.
    The required steps are quite involved, and the available instructions may be insufficient. 
    Please contact the author if you want to build OVITO on Windows and get stuck.
  </para>
  </simplesect>

 <simplesect>
    <title>Downloading the source code</title>
    <para>
    To download OVITO's source code into a new subdirectory named <filename>ovito</filename>, install <link xlink:href="http://git-scm.com">Git</link> and run: 
<screen><command>git clone https://gitlab.com/stuko/ovito.git ovito</command></screen>
    from the command line or go to <link xlink:href="https://sourceforge.net/p/ovito/git/ci/master/tree/">https://sourceforge.net/p/ovito/git/ci/master/tree/</link>
  </para>
  </simplesect>

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