The software uses CMake to create platform-specific build files.
Note: A working CMake installation is required for building the software.
CMake generates configuration files for the compiler environment/development environment on each platform. The following is a list of examples for Windows (MS Visual Studio), macOS (Xcode) and Linux (make).
Open a command prompt on your system and change into the root directory of this project.
Create a build directory in the root directory:
mkdir build
Use one of the following CMake commands, based on your platform. Feel free to change the commands to satisfy your needs.
Windows Visual Studio 2017/19 64 Bit:
Use the proper generator string for generating Visual Studio files, e.g. for VS 2019:
cd build
cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 16 2019"
Then open the generated solution file in MS Visual Studio.
For VS 2017 use "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64".
Visual Studio 2019 also allows you to open the CMake directory directly. Choose "File->Open->CMake" for this option.
macOS Xcode:
For generating an Xcode workspace type:
cd build
cmake .. -G "Xcode"
Then open the generated work space in Xcode.
For generating Makefiles with optional non-default compilers, use the following commands:
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc-11 -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++-11
In this example the brew installed GCC 9 is used for a release build.
Linux
For generating Linux Release Makefile:
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
For generating Linux Debug Makefile:
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
Then type
make -j
For more details, refer to the CMake documentation: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/
Note: The build instructions in this section require the make tool and Python to be installed, which are part of usual Linux and macOS environments. See below for installation instruction for Python and GnuWin32 on Windows.
Open a command prompt on your system and change into the root directory of this project.
To use the default system compiler simply call:
make all
For MSYS2 and MinGW: Open an MSYS MinGW 64-Bit terminal and change into the root directory of this project.
Call:
make all toolset=gcc
Download CMake: http://www.cmake.org/ and install it.
Python and GnuWin32 are not mandatory, but they simplify the build process for the user.
python: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-371/
gnuwin32: https://sourceforge.net/projects/getgnuwin32/files/getgnuwin32/0.6.30/GetGnuWin32-0.6.3.exe/download
To use MinGW, install MSYS2: http://repo.msys2.org/distrib/msys2-x86_64-latest.exe
Installation instructions: https://www.msys2.org/
Install the needed toolchains:
pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-i686-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain git subversion mingw-w64-i686-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake