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Building with Visual Studio on Windows

Dependencies

You will need to, of-course, clone the repository. After you have the repository you will need to download and build Astron's dependencies. See the building readme for instructions.

Preparing the VS Project

Currently, Astron only supports Visual Studio 2013 and above.

Preparing Astron for VisualStudio requires CMake. It is recommend to use the cmake-gui. (Download from http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html)

Under Where is the source code: Enter the path to your clone of Astron.

For Where to build the binaries: it is recommended to use a directory outside of the repository like <ASTRON_PATH>/../build or ../AstronBuild.

Then, hit Configure followed by Generate button.

Compiling

Using Visual Studio, open the solution generated by CMake at wherever you set your build path. You should then be able to build the solution with VS. By default, the keyboard shortcut for building the solution is the F7 key.

  • To build Astron for release, change the build type to Release from within Visual Studio.
  • For developing with Trace and Debug messages, set it to Debug.
  • For development without extra messages, set it to RelWithDebInfo.