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### Can I build BLIS on Windows?
Support for building in Windows is not directly supported. However, Windows 10 now provides a Linux-like environment. We suspect this is the best route for those trying to build BLIS in Windows.
If all you need is a Windows DLL of BLIS, you may be in luck! BLIS uses [AppVeyor](https://ci.appveyor.com/) to automatically produces dynamically-linked libraries, which are preserved on the site as "artifacts". To try it out, just visit the [BLIS AppVeyor page](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/shpc/blis/), click on the `LIB_TYPE=shared` link for the most recent build, and then click on "Artifacts". If you would like to provide us feedback, you may do so by [opening an issue](http://github.com/flame/blis/issues), or you can join the [blis-devel](http://groups.google.com/group/blis-devel) mailing list and send us a message.
If you want to build on Windows, there are two options:
1. MSVC ABI compatible DLL with clang
If you want BLIS to be compatible with DLLs built by MSVC, you need to use `clang.exe` to build BLIS as BLIS does not support building with Visual Studio C compiler (``cl.exe``). To build BLIS, you need a recent clang from [LLVM](https://releases.llvm.org/download.html), an [MSYS2](https://www.msys2.org/) environment (for build tools like `sed`, `bash`), a Visual Studio 2015 or later environment (for C standard library) and Windows SDK.
To build `BLIS`, activate the Visual Studio environment from a command prompy and drop in to a bash shell from MSYS2 environment. Then set `AR=llvm-ar`, `AS=llvm-as`, `RANLIB=echo`, `CC=clang` and then follow the instructions for the Linux build.
2. MinGW DLL
This is the easiest option to compile BLIS on windows, but the DLL might not be compatible with other programs compiled with MSVC. To build `BLIS`, install [MSYS2](https://www.msys2.org) and `mingw-w64` compilers. Then start a `bash` shell from MSYS2 and follow the instructions for the Linux build.
### Can I build BLIS as a shared library?
Yes. By default, most configurations output only a static library archive (e.g. `.a` file). However, you can also request a shared object (e.g. `.so` file), sometimes also called a "dynamically-linked" library. For information on enabling shared library output, simply run `./configure --help`.