Building for Windows

What you need:

• Visual Studio 2022 (Select C++ Support)
• CMake
• Git for Windows
• Make sure to select “Git from the command line and also from 3rd-party software”

Cloning Lime3DS

                    
    git clone --recursive https://github.com/Lime3DS/Lime3DS
    cd Lime3DS
                    
                

Building

• Open the CMake GUI Application and point it to the Lime3DS directory
• Use the preexisting build/ directory or tell CMake to make one
• Click the configure button and choose Visual Studio 17 2022 with x64 for the optional platform
• If you get errors like "XXX does not contain a CMakeLists.txt file", it means you did not use the --recursive flag when cloning the repo.
  Please run git submodule update --init --recursive to get the submodules
• Click Generate to create the project files
• Open the solution file in Visual Studio 2022, which is located in the build folder
• Depending on which frontend (SDL2 or Qt) you want to build or run, select "lime" or "lime-qt" in the Solution Explorer, right click and "Set as Starup Project"
• Select the appropriate build type, Debug for debug purposes or Release for performance (if in doubt, choose the latter)
• Press F5 or select Build → Rebuild Solution in the menu