Compiling and Debugging FORTE with MS Visual Studio
The following describes how to compile FORTE with win32-architecture using Visual Studio. For other tools or platforms or to see general information about compiling FORTE, go back to see more details about them.
Attention: If you are using a Visual Studio version older then 2010 you might need to extend it with a stdint.h file. See for example here.
Create MS Visual Studio Project for FORTE with CMake
- Open CMake-GUI.
- Choose source folder FORTE_FOLDER_ROOT.
- Choose desired destination folder. We recommend FORTE_FOLDER_ROOT/bin/win32.
- Press the Configure button and choose the version of Visual Studio that is used and native default compilers. Press the Finish button afterwards.
- For the option FORTE_ARCHITECTURE, select Win32. Other modules and configurations options can be set following the step 3 in Generate files for compiling.
- Press the Configure button, check red rows and repeat this untill now red row appears. Afterwards the Generate button.
Compile Forte with Visual Studio
- Open the generated FORTE project (.sln file) with Visual Studio in FORTE_FOLDER_ROOT/bin/win32. You change from Debug to Release mode if you don't want to debug.
- Build FORTE afterwards by right-clicking on forte in the Solution Explorer window, and then click Build. A forte.exe file should be generated in FORTE_FOLDER_ROOT/bin/win32/src/Release.
Debuggging
- If you want to Debug using Visual Studio select the Debug mode and set FORTE as the main project.
- And press F5 or click Debug → Start Debugging
Where to go from here?
Now that you installed the required tools, it's time to start using them. Take a look at the following page:
Step by step tutorial
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