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Build on Windows with VisualStudio
Marcus Hudritsch edited this page Sep 27, 2022
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- You must have installed a Visual Studio IDE with the "Desktop development with C++" option. The community version works fine.
- Clone the SLProject GIT repository into a directory of your choice
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Generate build folder with cmake in the console:
- Create a folder and name it e.g. build-Win64-VS2019 in the SLProject root folder.
- Open a command prompt and go into the new build directory with cd.
- Type cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019 Win64" .. to build the project files for Visual Studio 2019. With cmake -G you get all possible build systems that you could generate the project files for.
- For Visual Studio 16 2019 the generation changed to: cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017" -A x64 ..
- For Visual Studio 17 2022 the generation changed to: cmake -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64 ..
- Double-click the generated SLProject.sln solution file to open Visual Studio.
- 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 project with right-click > Set as Startup Project.
- To run the application you choose Debug > Start without Debugging.