This is a simple guide on building MCLE for Windows. Also check out my fork which includes guides on building for Xbox 360, if your interested in that

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
• MinecraftConsoles (both are the same):
  • mc-console-oct2014.zip (MD5: 7132eb8132a66b1ca362177afdb06ae0)
  • minecraft.rar (MD5: 66ecffa7d23adb20476a4c8c24757692)

• Open MinecraftConsoles.sln in Visual Studio 2012
  • Select "No" if asked to enable source control
• Right click the Minecraft.Client in the Solution Explorer and select "Set as StartUp Project"
• Select either Debug or Release for release type and Windows64 for platform
  • If building with Debug, navigate to Minecraft.Client > Windows64 > Source Files > Windows64_Minecraft.cpp and comment out line 480 (//createDeviceFlags |= D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_DEBUG;)
• Press F7 to build the solution
• Click Local Windows Debugger to launch the game

By default, running the binary directly will cause a crash, to fix this some files need to be copied to the build directory:

• Common/res Required to run
• Common/Media Required to run
• Durango/Sound For sound
• music For music
• Windows64Media/DLC Default DLC's
• Windows64/GameHDD Random world left in source
• Windows64/GameConfig Game configs (maybe different from default?)

You can also run Fix Build.bat to automatically do this

DLC's from other platforms can be added by copying their DLC folder to Windows64

• DurangoMedia/DLC Xbox One DLC's
• PS3Media/DLC PS3 DLC's
• PSVitaMedia/DLC PlayStation Vita DLC's

The Preprocessor Definitions can be found in Configuration Properties > C/C++ > Preprocessor > Preprocessor Definitions, this can let you remove/add definitions

• _DEBUG Debug
• _DEBUG_MENUS_ENABLED In-game debug menu
• _LARGE_WORLDS Large worlds (?)
• _FINAL_BUILD Final build (?)
• _CONTENT_PACKAGE Content package (?)
• _WINDOWS64 Build for Windows 64
• _XBOX Build for Xbox 360 (?)
• __PS3__ Build for PS3
• __PSVITA__ Build for PS Vita
• __ORBIS__ Build for PS4
• _XBOX_ONE Build for Xbox One (?)
• _DURANGO Build for Xbox One (?)