F.E.I.S/docs/Setup.md

Setting up the tools you need to work with F.E.I.S.'s code

Debian-ish Linux

I just want to compile

Install the big general "I'm a real C/C++ dev !" package.

$ sudo apt install build-essential

If this only gave you gcc version 9 or older, you need to install 10 : follow these instructions.

Install meson (the build system). I recommend doing so via python's pip to get a more up-to-date version than what your distro packages might have

$ pip install meson

Unfortunately this also means meson will not come with ninja so we need to install it ourselves :

$ sudo apt install ninja-build

Install dependencies

sudo apt install libsfml-dev libopenal-dev libgmp-dev libaubio-dev libfftw3-dev

Then checkout this page for instructions on how to compile

I also want to contribute some code

Install clang-format

$ sudo apt install clang-format

Windows

I just want to compile

MSYS2

MSYS2 is not the usual way to compile things for windows but it's the only thing I know for now. If you know better, by all means, do what you think is best (and also please share some of your knowledge with me, I absolutely suck at build systems and would be delighted to learn from an expert)

Installing MSYS2 is pretty simple. Follow their instructions

Once you're done pacman -Syuing and pacman -Suing your system, open a new MSYS2 MSYS terminal and install the required packages :

$ pacman -S \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-meson \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-sfml \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-boost \
    mingw-w64-x86_64-ntldd-git

Once this is done, open a new MSYS2 MinGW x64 terminal and follow the compilation instructions