Developer Getting Started: Visual Studio

For pre-2017 Visual Studios, see Visual Studio Setup.

Prerequisites

• Git client (GitHub for Windows)
• Visual Studio 2019
• CMake
• vcpkg
• python
  • pip install protobuf

1. Clone repo

2. Setup vcpkg

3. Run vcpkg install sdl2 sdl2-image sdl2-mixer protobuf

4. Install python; run pip install protobuf

5. Generate the project using CMake, with -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=C:/Users/User/Documents/GitHub/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake (replace with your installed location as prompted by vcpkg integrate install

   • Example: cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=C:/Users/User/Documents/GitHub/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake . -A x64
   • Note: make sure you match the generated project architecture with the SDL architecture; see https://stackoverflow.com/a/28370892/2038264

6. Open the generated .sln file using Visual Studio

7. Set the cdogs-sdl project as the startup project

   

8. Press F5 to compile and run. You are ready to go!