How to Build?

NOTE: a Prebuilt and more up to date binary exists here!!!

Step 1 - Installing Chocolatey, git and Cmake

Run a Powershell.exe As Administrator and enter this command to install chocolatey like this:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

close Powershell and open it Again as Administrator and enter this command:

chocolatey install cmake git

Answer Y to every question.

After these are installed, make sure you have Visual Studio installed. important note: you need to check “Desktop development with C++”!!!. When Visual Studio is installed, navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\**.**.**\bin\Hostx64\x64 And copy this location. (the stars are there, because you might have a different version.)

if you found the folder, run this command. ("your_folder" is the complete directory, eg. "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\bin\Hostx64\x64")

cmd /c setx.exe PATH "%PATH%;your_folder;C:\Program Files\Cmake\Bin"

note: please do this step very carefully.

Step 2 - Cloning repository

Open another Powershell and use cd to navigate into the desired location (default folder is C:/Users/your_name/)

How do i use cd? Use cd ../ to go back one Folder and use cd path/to/your_folder/ to go into that Folder. This also works for full paths, i.e. C:/Users/example/Documents/.

To clone the repository ether these commands one by one:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/ange-yaghi/engine-sim
cd engine-sim/
mkdir build/
cd build/

info: leave the Powershell open for now.

Step 3 - Dependencies

First, create a local folder in your C: drive.

Then put these files in the local folder like this:

Now, copy this chunk of text and paste it into the CMakeLists.txt in the engine-sim folder after set_property(TARGET gtest_main PROPERTY FOLDER "gtest"):

set(SDL2_INCLUDE_DIR C:/local/SDL2/include)
set(SDL2_LIBRARY C:/local/SDL2/lib/x64/SDL2.lib)
set(SDL2_DIR C:/local/SDL2)
set(SDL2MAIN_LIBRARY C:/local/SDL2/lib/x64/SDL2main.lib)

set(SDL2_IMAGE_INCLUDE_DIR C:/local/SDL2_image/include)
set(SDL2_IMAGE_LIBRARY C:/local/SDL2_image/lib/x64/SDL2_image.lib)

set(Boost_DIR C:/local/Boost_1_80_0)
set(Boost_INCLUDE_DIR C:/local/Boost_1_80_0)
set(Boost_FILESYSTEM_LIBRARY_RELEASE C:/local/Boost_1_80_0/lib64-msvc-14.3/libboost_filesystem-vc143-mt-x64-1_80.lib)
set(Boost_FILESYSTEM_LIBRARY_DEBUG C:/local/Boost_1_80_0/lib64-msvc-14.3/libboost_filesystem-vc143-mt-gd-x64-1_80.lib)
set(Boost_LIBRARY_DIR_DEBUG C:/local/Boost_1_80_0/lib64-msvc-14.3)
set(Boost_LIBRARY_DIR_RELEASE C:/local/Boost_1_80_0/lib64-msvc-14.3)

set(FLEX_EXECUTABLE C:/local/WinFlexBison/win_flex.exe)
set(BISON_EXECUTABLE C:/local/WinFlexBison/win_bison.exe)

include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR})
include_directories(${SDL2_INCLUDE_DIR})
include_directories(${SDL2_IMAGE_INCLUDE_DIR})

Also, change option(PIRANHA_ENABLED "Enable scripting input" OFF) to option(PIRANHA_ENABLED "Enable scripting input" ON):

Step 4 - Building the Simulator

Return to the Powershell you left open in step 2 and run these commands:

cmake ..
cmake --build .

Everything should build sucessfully. You can ignore the Yellow warnings while building.

Step 5 - Starting the Simulator

First, you need to put These DLL's into the Release Folder. If you don't see This folder, create it. info: the capital R is important

In the engine-sim folder, open the build folder and open the file engine-sim.sln.

Then you select Release in this dropdown menu:

and in the solution explorer, right click engine-sim-app and select Set as Startup project:

now you can Press F5 to start the Simulator. info: This will not run Standalone without moving files, so you need to start it with VS.