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Developing with Visual Studio

Software Package Installation

Install the required packages in the order below. The Intel compiler requires Visual Studio to be installed first. Include the two workloads (C++ and Python) to add needed support for cmake and testing. The Intel package will install the ifort (soon to be deprecated) and ifx compiler. Although Visual Studio bundles Git, a separate install is needed to support version tagging during the cmake build.

• Install the latest Visual Studio 2022 (17.2.3) Community edition (https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/), include the Desktop development with C++ and Python workload

• Install the Intel Fortran Compiler Classic and Intel Fortran Compiler for Windows package from Intel

  (Intel® Fortran Compiler)

• Install Python from the MS App store and Git from (https://git-scm.com )

Starting Visual Studio

• Open a Windows terminal by pressing Windows+r and run cmd

• In the terminal run the script C:\"Program Files (x86)"\Intel\oneAPI\setvars.bat

• In the same (!) terminal run the command devenv. This will start Visual Studio with the proper compiler settings.

Cloning the SWAT+ repository from GitHub

Clone the SWAT+ repository from GitHub ...