Download and install CMake and Visual Studio 2019.
The following commands will generate a visual studio solution at /Build/esd.sln and build it to /Build/Release/esd.exe.
cmake -S . -B Build -A x64 -G "Visual Studio 16 2019"
cmake --build Build --config Release
Yes: Other toolchains and generators for Windows are going to work fine if you know what you're doing.
Download and install CMake as well as Ninja.
On linux install build-essential with sudo apt install build-essential.
On MacOS install gcc using brew with brew install gcc.
The following commands will build esd using the Ninja build system and gcc into /Build/esd.
cmake -S . -B Build -G "Ninja"
cmake --build Build --config Release
Yes: other toolchains and generators will work fine if you know what you're doing.
This project makes use of the small subset of C++20 that is commonly supported by GCC, Clang and MSVC. I made this choice because I'm trying to get used to using C++20. The majority of code should be C++17 compatible although anything older would require significant refactoring (as I make use of std::filesystem).
As C++20 support improves: pull requests are welcome to continue modernizing this project. As ESD has no external dependencies and isn't intended to be consumed as a library, it seems like a great learning project for learning new C++ features so long as Linux, Windows and MacOS builds can still be produced easily.
If you already have CMake installed as a Visual Studio feature you can easily setup a build script that finds that version of cmake rather than installing another copy. I recommend looking at vssetup to reliably get the visual studio install path.
ESD is also designed to be simple to build. If your C++ compiler supports C++20 you can likely drag and drop the files from /Source/* into a build environment and build it with little to no configuration.