building-under-windows-11-visual-studio-community-2022.md

Building under Windows 11/Visual Studio Community 2022

Installing the dependencies

IdLib Array requires

• Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 Version 17.9.2 or better. Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 is available at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/.
• Kitware CMake Version 3.28.3 or better. Kitware CMake is available at https://cmake.org/.

Building the program

The following instructions will perform an out-of-source build. An out-of-source build does not modify the source directory by storing any build file, intermediate file, or product file in a dedicated build directory outside of the source directory. An out of source build is the recommended way of building IdLib Array.

• Checkout idlib-array https://github.com/michaelheilmann/idlib-array.git into a directory in your file system. For the remainder of this manual, we call this directory source directory and denote it in command-line prompts by the meta variable <source-directory>.
• Create a directory outside of the source directory in which the build will be performed. That directory must not reside in the source directory <source-directory>. For the remainder of this manual, we call this directory build directory and denote it in command-line prompts by the meta variable <build-directory>.
• Open a console and enter the build directory <build-directory>.
• Enter cmake <source-directory>.
• The Visual Studio Community 2022 solution file idlib-array.sln should have been generated in <build-directory>.