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Graphite compilation on Windows

Prerequisites

• git here use 64-bit Git for Windows Setup.
• Tortoise git here optionnal, adds context menus to file browser, convenient
• CMake here use cmake-xxxx-windows-x86_64.msi IMPORTANT: select "Add CMake to system path for all users"
• Visual C++ here use community version

Quick compilation guide

• git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/BrunoLevy/GraphiteThree.git (if you installed Tortoise git, right click in current folder, git clone, enter repository address, select recursive checkbox)
• open GraphiteThree folder
• double click on configure.bat it should display a message that solution was generated
• open Build/Windows/GraphiteThree.sln in VisualStudio
• set Release mode (default is Debug)
• build solution

Graphite is generated in the Build\Release\bin subdirectory. To start it from Visual C++, right click on GRAPHITE/binaries/Graphite in the solution explorer and set it as the startup project. Then <Ctrl><F5> starts Graphite (or <F5> to start Graphite in the debugger).

Compiling plugins

Create the file GraphiteThree/plugins/OGF/Plugins.txt (you can copy GraphiteThree/plugins/OGF/Plugins.txt.sample) and for each plugin you want to compile, add a line with:

add_subdirectory(PluginName)

where PluginName is one of WarpDrive (optimal transport), RayTracing (to display transparent surfaces) or gompy (Python interoperability for Graphite).

Then reconfigure and rebuild Graphite.

Getting the latest version of submodules

To get latest version of submodules, in a terminal (or using git shell here if you installed Tortoise git):

   git submodule update --recursive --remote