CMP316 Coursework
Finn Else-McCormick | 2200864
Install msys2
Add 'C:\msys64\ucrt64\bin' and 'C:\msys64\ucrt64\lib' (assuming default install location) to PATH.
Install Rust
Install the nightly toolchain for your architecture and compiler. For GCC, this will be nightly-<architecture>-pc-windows-gnu:
rustup install nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
It needs to be the nightly version as we use some nightly-only command line options when integrating with Meson.
Install the cxxbridge-cmd package with Cargo:
cargo install cxxbridge-cmd
Use msys2 to install the following tools:
And the following dependencies:
This can be done by running the following commands in the msys2 ucrt64 console:
pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-meson pkgconf mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-sed
pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-SDL2 mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-glew mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-glm mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-enet mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-entt mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-libwasmtime mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-assimp
Once the tools and dependencies have been installed, you can set up Meson by running the following command in the project directory:
meson setup builddir
Once builddir exists, the project can be built with the following command:
meson compile -C builddir
If Meson cannot find the dependencies, check that it is finding the right pkg-config. It will use the first one available in PATH, and libraries like gstreamer will sometimes have their own one.
If working in VSCode, you should install the C++ and Meson extensions.
There is a bug in the C++ extension that messes up the intellisense when Meson has dependencies. Until this is fixed, you should use version 1.21.6 of the C++ extension.
In order to debug from VSCode, you will also need GDB.
If you don't already have it, it can be installed through msys2 with the following command:
pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gdb