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Important steps to build OVITO under Windows with the Microsoft compiler
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1. Download and install Microsoft C++ Compiler (e.g. Visual C++ Express Edition)
2. Download and install Python interpreter for Windows
3. Download and install CMake for Windows
4. Download and extract source code for zlib library.
5. Download source packages for Boost library from www.boost.org
6. Download and extract bjam build utility into boost directory.
7. Build Boost library: 
  bjam --with-python --with-iostreams --with-serialization --with-thread
    toolset=msvc variant=release,debug link=shared threading=multi -sZLIB_SOURCE=[path to zlib dir] 
    runtime-link=shared install
8. Download and install Qt for Windows
9. Build Qt libraries