DISCLAIMER: This chess engine is built from a person that has absolutely no knowledge about chess engines or chess strategies and things like that. This was only an approach to a new topic that I wanted to explore.
TL;DR: This chess engine probably sucks, so don't expect anything from it.
The chess engine is built on SDL2 to provide simple rendering.
To compile the project you have to download the SDL2 library and put everything except the DLLs in a new folder called libsdl, then take the DLLs and put them in a new folder called build. Once you have done that you should be able to compile it by running:
$ make
OR
$ make run
that will automatically run the executable, located at build/main.exe.