Compilation Guide for Windows

This guide provides instructions on how to set up your Windows environment for compiling projects using make and Microsoft Visual Studio's cl.exe.

Compilation with only msbuild tools

Run the build_without_makefile.bat in the directory with main.c

Compilation with a makefile

Requirements

Installing Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a Windows package manager that simplifies the installation of software and tools. To install Chocolatey, run the following command in an elevated PowerShell prompt:

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'))

Installing Make

After installing Chocolatey, you can easily install GNU Make, a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files. To install make, run the following command in PowerShell or CMD:

choco install make

Compiling with CL (Visual Studio Compiler)

To compile projects that require Visual Studio's cl.exe, a batch script is used to set up the environment properly.

Batch Script Setup

The batch script calls vcvars64.bat to ensure all Visual Studio command-line tools are available in the PATH, and then it executes make. This setup enables the compilation of projects with cl.exe.

Steps to Compile

Create a Batch File: Create a build.bat file in your project directory with the necessary commands to set up the environment and invoke make.

@echo off
CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat"
make %*

Compile the Project: Execute the batch script by typing build.bat in the command prompt within your project directory. This compiles your project into a Windows executable.

build.bat

Cleaning Up

Delete Object Files: To clean up object files generated during the compilation process, run:
```
make clean
```
Delete Object Files and Executable: To remove both object files and the generated executable, ensuring a clean start, run:
```
make fclean
```

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