* [Vulkan SDK 1.1.97.0+](https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home) (See "Install the SDK" [here](https://vulkan.lunarg.com/doc/sdk/latest/windows/getting_started.html))
**Either add the** `QTDIR`**environment variable, e.g.**`<QtInstallFolder>\5.14.1\msvc2017_64\`**, or use the [Visual Studio Qt Plugin](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TheQtCompany.QtVisualStudioTools-19123)**
* [Vulkan SDK 1.1.97.0+](https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home) (See "Install the SDK" [here](https://vulkan.lunarg.com/doc/sdk/latest/linux/getting_started.html))
You can either use `update-alternatives` to setup `gcc-8`/`g++-8` as your default compilers or prefix any `cmake` command by `CXX=g++-8 CC=gcc-8 ` to use it.
##### Vulkan SDK
For Ubuntu systems, it is strongly recommended to use the PPA from [LunarG](https://packages.lunarg.com/) which will provide a compatible Vulkan SDK to compile RPCS3. If your Vulkan SDK is older, it can lead to compilation errors.
3) While selecting the rpcs3qt project, go to Qt5->Project Setting and select the version you added.
#### Building the projects
Open `rpcs3.sln`. The recommended build configuration is `Release - LLVM` for all purposes.
You may want to download precompiled [LLVM libs](https://github.com/RPCS3/llvm/releases/download/continuous-master/llvmlibs.7z) and extract to root rpcs3 folder (which contains `rpcs3.sln`), as well as download and extract [additional libs](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1A2eOMmCO714i0U7J0qI4aEMKnuWl8l_R) to `lib\%CONFIGURATION%-x64\` to speed up compilation time (unoptimised/debug libs are currently not available precompiled).
If you're not using precompiled libs, build the projects in *__BUILD_BEFORE* folder: right-click on every project > *Build*.
`Build > Build Solution`
### Linux
While still in the project root:
1) `cd .. && mkdir rpcs3_build && cd rpcs3_build`
2) `cmake ../rpcs3/ && make` or `CXX=g++-8 CC=gcc-8 cmake ../rpcs3/ && make` to force these compilers
3) Run RPCS3 with `./bin/rpcs3`
When using GDB, configure it to ignore SIGSEGV signal (`handle SIGSEGV nostop noprint`).
If desired, use the various build options in [CMakeLists](https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt).