pacman/exercises/11/build_and_run

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Exercise: Set up development environment

Install tools

All Platforms

• Follow the instructions to install VSCode from https://code.visualstudio.com/

Ubuntu 20.04 or newer

• Install the build tools

sudo apt-get install ninja-build pkg-config curl zip unzip tar cmake build-essential libx11-dev libxrandr-dev libxi-dev libudev-dev libgl1-mesa-dev

FreeBSD 12 or newer

• Install the build tools

sudo pkg install catch cmake libfmt ninja sfml

Windows:

• Follow the instructions to install cmake (3.21) from https://cmake.org/download/
• Install Visual Studio https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/ You might have to reboot your computer once that's done.

Mac

• Install clang by typing xcode-select --install in a terminal and following the instructions
• Install the build tools

brew install cmake ninja

• Follow the instructions for Launching VSCode from the command line

Configure and build project

All Platforms, using VS Code

git clone https://github.com/mod-cpp/pacman.git
cd pacman
code .

Linux, BSD, or Mac, not using VS Code

git clone https://github.com/mod-cpp/pacman.git
cd pacman
cmake .
make