# Building ## Windows ### Visual Studio with vcpkg Use `vcpkg` to install packages. See https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg ``` > git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git > cd vcpkg PS> .\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat Linux:~/$ ./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh .\vcpkg integrate install ``` You will want to install the following packages as follows: ``` vcpkg install sdl2:x64-windows glm:x64-windows glew:x64-windows boost:x64-windows ``` Then you can open the directory in Visual Studio and it will be recognised as a CMake project. Whether you use the open folder functionality or call `cmake` on the command line you will need to set the toolchain file to the `vcpkg` one. This lives in the `vcpkg` directory under `scripts\buildsystems\vcpkg.cmake` https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/blob/master/docs/examples/installing-and-using-packages.md#cmake-toolchain-file Note that if you do `vcpkg integrate install` then you don't need to set the toolchain when using visual studio 2019 ### Qt specifics Installing Qt from the installer requires some mods to work. The path to Qt is hardcoded in the cmake file for the moment and when running from Visual Studio Code you need something like the following in the launch config so that the DLLs are found. ``` "env": { "path": "C:\\Qt\\6.0.2\\msvc2019_64\\bin;%PATH%" } ``` ## Linux ### CMake From the base directory: ``` mkdir build cd build cmake .. make -j$(nproc) ```