Building WoW Model Viewer is pretty simple : you need SDK to have all required third app / libraries and application sources

Wow Model Viewer SDK

Download SDK here : wmv_sdk.zip

Decompress it in folder of your choice

Install Visual Studio 2013 Community edition (needed to have compile chain on windows, you can uncheck all options) : vs_community.exe

Launch wmv_sdk.bat by double clicking on it, it will open a prompt like this one (in my example, I have unzipped SDK in c:\wmv_sdk)

You are now ready to compile WoW Model Viewer

WoW Model Viewer

You can use either

mercurial clone (prefered method if you plan to do regular update from central repo)
archived source download (prefered method if you do not plan to update sources on a regular basis) https://bitbucket.org/wowmodelviewer/wowmodelviewer/downloads

In following example, let's consider sources are available in c:\wowmodelviewer (adapt examples depending on your own location)

in prompt opened by SDK, move to your source location

cd YOUR_SOURCE_LOCATION

Create a build directory (cmake recommands what is called "out of sources compilation), and move in

mkdir CMakeBuild
cd CMakeBuild

Launch CMake generation

cmake -G"NMake Makefiles" ..\src

Launch compilation

nmake install

When finished, you should see this (copying all files into installation folder)

You can you go to bin\ folder under your source tree (c:\wowmodelviewer\bin in this example), you have a wowmodelviewer.exe that you can execute

That's it, simply double click on wowmodelviewer executable and you will use your freshly compiled version of WoW Model Viewer

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