Windows Development Environment

Install the following:

• CMake* (Build system generator)
• Ninja Build* (build system)
• MSBuild (compiler)
• Vulkan SDK
• DirectX SDK
• VSCode
• libusb* (library & include files)
• Zadig (Tool for handling USB device drivers)
• pkg-config* download pkg-config_0.26-1_win32.zip (pkg-config.exe)
• gettext-runtime* download gettext-runtime_0.18.1.1-2_win32.zip (intl.dll)
• glib* download glib_2.28.8-1_win32.zip (libglib-2.0-0.dll)
• nasm*
• perl

*Add to PATH environment variable

VSCode Extensions

• Microsoft C/C++
• Microsoft C/C++ Extension Path
• Microsoft CMake Tools

Create environment variable

CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX - defines build install location

Launching development environment

• Open Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022
• launch vscode from there

install MSYS2 pacman -Suy | update system packages, if prompted to close terminal, open a new terminal and run again to update non-core packages

pacman -Fy | download database file for remote package repositories

pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gcc

mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-libusb

mingw-w64-libusb