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- **Additional libraries**: libPNG, libJPEG, libTIFF, Glew, Zlib, TinyXML2
Download the [Windows dependency pack](https://www.sofa-framework.org/download/WinDepPack/VS-2017/latest).
You will need to unzip it directly in SOFA sources (later in this tutorial).
It will be fetch automatically from https://github.com/sofa-framework/WinDepPack.git directly by SOFA CMake generation. For advanced dev, you can provide you own by modfying the CMake variables WINDEPPACK_GIT_REPOSITORY and WINDEPPACK_GIT_TAG.

- **Eigen** (>= 3.2.10)
Download and extract the [latest Eigen sources](https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen/-/releases).
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git clone -b master https://github.com/sofa-framework/sofa.git sofa/src
```

**Next**, unzip the **SOFA dependencies for Windows** (downloaded before) directly in the sources `sofa/src/`.

**Finally**, you should have something like this:

![](https://www.sofa-framework.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/sofa_files.png)


## Generate a VS project (.sln) or a Makefile with CMake

1. Create build directories respecting the arrangement above.
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