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Building HandBrake for Windows
Command line interface and LibHB
Building the HandBrake [CLI](abbr:Command Line Interface) and LibHB (hb.dll) for Windows requires Linux and a recent MinGW-w64 toolchain. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) or later is recommended; other distros may work as well. In all cases, we recommend you build the MinGW-w64 toolchain using our instructions and the included script, as some packaged versions have issues that can produce non-functioning builds.
The following instructions are for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) through 19.10 (Eoan Ermine).
Basic requirements to run commands:
- sudo (for normal user accounts)
Dependencies:
- autoconf
- automake
- autopoint
- build-essential
- cmake
- gcc
- git
- libtool
- libtool-bin
- m4
- make
- nasm
- ninja-build
- patch
- pkg-config
- python
- tar
- zlib1g-dev
Additional dependencies for Ubuntu 18.10 and later:
- meson
Additional Ubuntu 18.04 LTS dependencies:
- python3-pip
- meson (via pip3)
Additional MinGW-w64 toolchain dependencies:
- bison
- bzip2
- curl
- flex
- g++
- gzip
- pax
Install dependencies.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install automake autoconf autopoint build-essential cmake gcc git intltool libtool libtool-bin m4 make nasm patch pkg-config python tar zlib1g-dev
If you are running Ubuntu 18.10 or later, install the additional dependencies.
sudo apt-get install meson
If you are running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, the meson package is too old. Install a newer version provided by the Python Package Index.
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install meson
Install the additional dependencies required to build the MinGW-w64 toolchain.
sudo apt-get install bison bzip2 curl flex g++ gzip pax
Clone the HandBrake repository.
git clone https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake.git && cd HandBrake
Build the MinGW-w64 toolchain using the included script, where username is your user name. Feel free to choose a different output path, if desired.
scripts/mingw-w64-build x86_64 /home/username/toolchains/
This process will take a few minutes, then provide you with instructions for adding the resulting binaries location to your environment's PATH. Do this now.
Build HandBrake. For higher quality audio, enable the FDK AAC encoder by appending --enable-fdk-aac. Builds including FDK AAC must be for personal use only and may not be distributed.1
./configure --cross=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --launch-jobs=$(nproc) --launch
When complete, you will find HandBrakeCLI.exe in the build directory and hb.dll in build/libhb.
To start over, simply remove the build directory.
rm -rf build
Graphical interface
The following tools are required to build and run the [GUI](abbr:Graphical User Interface).
- Microsoft Visual Studio Community
- A Git client
- Source Tree (recommended)
- Client included with Visual Studio 2015 or later
hb.dll(see the LibHB build instructions preceding these, or download from https://handbrake.fr/nightly.php)- JetBrains ReSharper (optional)
- Highly recommended for developers interested in working on the Windows UI
- Active, regular contributors may request a free for open source ReSharper license from the HandBrake Team, courtesy JetBrains
Clone https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake.git using your git client.
Source code for the GUI resides in the win\CS folder and the solution file is named HandBrake.sln. Make sure HandBrakeWPF is set as the startup project in the Solution Explorer by right-clicking the name and selecting "Set as startup project".
To build the GUI, select Build Solution from the Build menu.
When complete, locate the output folder where HandBrake.exe is created (typically in win\CS\HandBrakeWPF\bin\..., depending on the selected build profile). Copy hb.dll to this folder. This completes the build process.
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The FDK AAC encoder is only provided in source code form and is not fully compatible with the GNU General Public License Version 2 used by HandBrake. Builds including FDK AAC must be for personal use only and may not be distributed. Do not share the build product with others. ↩︎