CPP Project Template

Bootstrap environment

Windows

Install Visual Studio

You are free to install the Visual Studio IDE or only the tools and compiler sets using the Build Tools for Visual Studio package along with your own text editor or IDE. In both cases, once in the Visual Studio installer, select the Individual Components tab and check the options:

C++ Clang Compiler for Windows
C++ Clang-cl for v[version] build tools (x64/x86)
C++ CMake tools for Windows

⚠️ To use the tools, you will need to start the editor from from a Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio, or at least make sure the environment includes the tools in the PATH environment variable. The default configuration of the new Windows Terminal includes profiles to launch either a Powershell or Batch developer command prompt.

Manual installation

Download and install from:

Using `winget`

For the full IDE:

winget install Microsoft.VisualStudio.<release-year>.<edition>

For the build tools only:

winget install Microsoft.VisualStudio.<release-year>.BuildTools

winget supports --location and --interactive for more precise and controlled configurations.

Linux (Debian-based)

install docker install act -> https://github.com/nektos/act

Follow instructions to install Clang-13.

install cmake 3.22 sudo apt install
curl zip unzip tar
g++ build-essential
pkg-config ninja-build

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