How to build VTM

The software uses CMake to create platform-specific build files.

Build instructions for plain CMake (suggested)

Note: A working CMake installation is required for building the software.

CMake generates configuration files for the compiler environment/development environment on each platform. The following is a list of examples for Windows (MS Visual Studio), macOS (Xcode) and Linux (make).

Open a command prompt on your system and change into the root directory of this project.

Create a build directory in the root directory:

mkdir build 

Use one of the following CMake commands, based on your platform. Feel free to change the commands to satisfy your needs.

Windows Visual Studio 2015/17/19 64 Bit:

Use the proper generator string for generating Visual Studio files, e.g. for VS 2015:

cd build
cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64"

Then open the generated solution file in MS Visual Studio.

For VS 2017 use "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64", for VS 2019 use "Visual Studio 16 2019".

Visual Studio 2019 also allows you to open the CMake directory directly. Choose "File->Open->CMake" for this option.

macOS Xcode:

For generating an Xcode workspace type:

cd build
cmake .. -G "Xcode"

Then open the generated work space in Xcode.

For generating Makefiles with optional non-default compilers, use the following commands:

cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc-9 -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++-9

In this example the brew installed GCC 9 is used for a release build.

Linux

For generating Linux Release Makefile:

cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

For generating Linux Debug Makefile:

cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug

Then type

make -j

For more details, refer to the CMake documentation: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/

Build instructions for make

Note: The build instructions in this section require the make tool and Python to be installed, which are part of usual Linux and macOS environments. See below for installation instruction for Python and GnuWin32 on Windows.

Open a command prompt on your system and change into the root directory of this project.

To use the default system compiler simply call:

make all

For MSYS2 and MinGW: Open an MSYS MinGW 64-Bit terminal and change into the root directory of this project.

Call:

make all toolset=gcc

Tool Installation on Windows

Download CMake: http://www.cmake.org/ and install it.

Python and GnuWin32 are not mandatory, but they simplify the build process for the user.

python: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-371/

gnuwin32: https://sourceforge.net/projects/getgnuwin32/files/getgnuwin32/0.6.30/GetGnuWin32-0.6.3.exe/download

To use MinGW, install MSYS2: http://repo.msys2.org/distrib/msys2-x86_64-latest.exe

Installation instructions: https://www.msys2.org/

Install the needed toolchains:

pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-i686-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain git subversion mingw-w64-i686-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake