How to build OGRE on Windows

OGRE is a bit difficult to compile on Windows because of the many libraries it depends on.

Build OGRE dependencies

• Clone the OGRE Dependencies repository. This has the source code of all the OGRE dependent libraries.

• Build it using CMake. Make sure you set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to a separate subdirectory since this path will be used while building OGRE.

• If you get error on unistd.h, comment that line. I found it could build without using it.

Build OGRE

• Download the source code of OGRE or clone from its repository.

• Build it using CMake. Set the variable OGRE_DEPENDENCIES_DIR to the install path you set while building the dependencies. Set the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX variable to the place where you want the OGRE libraries and executables need to be placed after build.

Pre-built

Pre-built libraries of OGRE for recent Visual Studio versions can be downloaded from here.

Reference

• Building Ogre in Windows 7/8 using Visual Studio 2012

Tried with: OGRE 1.8.1, Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 7 x64