Building on Windows

Compiling

First read through building astron from source, if you haven't done so already, to set up Astron's build environment.

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 on Windows. (Download)

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 the Configure button followed by the 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.