Visual Studio

Visual Studio Community is a Windows-only IDE by Microsoft that’s free for individual use or non-commercial use within organizations. It has many useful features, such as memory view, performance view, source control and more.

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1. Enable vcpkg

If you have administrator permissions:

• vcpkg is now included with Visual Studio

If you don’t have administrator permissions:

Use the script (recommended option):

1. Download the script from here

2. Navigate to the directory where the script was downloaded.

3. Run the script with the following command:

   .\vcpkg-without-admin-rights.bat
   

Manual installation:

1. Go to the user folder (optional):

   cd %UserProfile%
   

2. Clone vcpkg in a folder of your choice:

   git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git
   

3. Bootstrap vcpkg:

   cd vcpkg
   .\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
   

4. Integrate this vcpkg instance into the system:

   .\vcpkg.exe integrate install
   

5. Set the user environment variable:

   setx VCPKG_ROOT .
   

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2. Open the project

• Two ways: - Right-click on the project folder and select Open with Visual Studio. - Open Visual Studio 2022 and use the Open a Local Folder option.

3. Once Visual Studio is opened

1. Ensure there are no errors and that – Running vcpkg install appears in the output window.

1. Wait until you see CMake generation has finished in the output.

Run the Engine

1. Select the project to compile:

2. Press the Play button:

3. Hope nothing fails 0-o

1. Enjoy!