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Building on Windows with vcpkg

This will require more than 30GB of free space on your hard drive.

Prerequisites

  1. Install Visual Studio with "Desktop development with C++"

  2. Install CMake

  3. Install git

  4. Install vcpkg

    git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
cd vcpkg
.\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
.\vcpkg integrate install
.\vcpkg integrate powershell
cd ..

  5. Configure the environment variables for vcpkg.
    Check this document for more information for how to set environment variables on Windows.

  6. You may need to restart your computer to ensure all your environment variables and what-not are loaded everywhere.

Building

  1. Clone 
    git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/Chatterino/chatterino2.git
  2. Install dependencies 
    cd .\chatterino2\
vcpkg install
  3. Build 
    cmake -B build -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="$Env:VCPKG_ROOT/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake"
cd build
cmake --build . --parallel <threads> --config Release
    When using CMD, use -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=%VCPKG_ROOT%/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake to specify the toolchain.
  4. Run .\bin\chatterino2.exe