Building on Windows

To run Minotor from the source code you will need to install these tools:

MinGW 4.4 (unzip into C:\MinGW\)
Qt 4.8.5 (the C++ framework used to write Minotor)
Qt Creator (the IDE, to write code and compile)
GitHub (to clone the source code onto your computer and get updates)

To install the source code, do the following.

Create a directory on your computer for the source code, e.g. C:\Minotor. The instructions below assume this is the base directory; change it to the one you chose.
Open a command line and go to this directory:
```
cd C:\Minotor
```

Get the source code:

git clone https://github.com/neomilium/minotor

You should now have Minotor's source code on your computer, in C:\Minotor\minotor. You have everything you need to compile and run Minotor: launch Qt Creator, open Minotor's project (C:\Minotor\minotor\Minotor.pro), compile it and run it.

You'll probably need to create a directory to store MIDI mappings in C:\Users\YOUR USER NAME\AppData\Local\Minotor. AppData is a hidden directory, so make sure hidden directories are shown in Windows.

Editor's note, 2026 The repository moved to https://github.com/minotor-org/minotor; the old neomilium/minotor address still redirects, so the clone command works either way.

The toolchain above is the 2014 one. In September 2016 the Debian packaging was changed to prefer Qt 5, and the README of the final version builds with plain qmake and make against Qt 5. We have not tested a Windows build of the last commit; if you try, start from Qt 5 rather than 4.8.5. The mappings/ folder in the repository holds ready-made MIDI mappings you can copy into the AppData directory.

Original page: wiki.minotor.org/doku.php/windows. Written by the Minotor team and licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. Changes: spelling corrected, editor's note added. This page is available under the same licence. Updated 2026-09.