Build on Windows with VisualStudio

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Marcus Hudritsch edited this page Oct 29, 2018 · 48 revisions

Clone the GIT repository into a directory of your choice
You can download a free Version of VisualStudio for Windows.
Install the latest [CMake](https://cmake.org/). You need at least CMake Version 3.3.
Create a build folder name e.g. build-Win64-VS2017 in or outside of the SLProject root folder.
- Open a console and go into the build directory.
- Type cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64 .." to build the project files for Visual Studio 2017. With cmake -G you get all possible build systems that you could generate the project files for.
Double click the generated SLProject.sln solution file to open Visual Studio.
Set either the Debug or Release configuration and the x64 platform.
Build all projects by right-clicking > Build on the ALL_BUILD project. It should build all projects without error.
To run an application you must first set it as the startup program with right-click > Set as Startup Program.
- To run the application you choose Debug > Start without Debugging.