BUILDING_ON_WINDOWS_WITH_VCPKG.md

Building on Windows with vcpkg

This will require more than 30GB of free space on your hard drive.

Prerequisites

1. Install Visual Studio with "Desktop development with C++"

2. Install CMake

3. Install git

4. Install vcpkg

   git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
   cd vcpkg
   .\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
   .\vcpkg integrate install
   .\vcpkg integrate powershell
   cd ..

5. Configure the environment variables for vcpkg.
   Check this document for more information for how to set environment variables on Windows.

   • Ensure your dependencies are built as 64-bit
     e.g. setx VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET x64-windows
     See documentation about Triplets
     default is x86-windows
   • Set VCPKG_ROOT to the vcpkg path
     e.g. setx VCPKG_ROOT <path to vcpkg>
     See VCPKG_ROOT documentation
   • Append the vcpkg path to your path
     e.g. setx PATH "%PATH%;<path to vcpkg>"
   • For more configurations, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/vcpkg/users/config-environment

6. You may need to restart your computer to ensure all your environment variables and what-not are loaded everywhere.

Building

1. Clone

   git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/Chatterino/chatterino2.git

2. Install dependencies

   cd .\chatterino2\
   vcpkg install

3. Build

   cmake -B build -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="$Env:VCPKG_ROOT/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake"
   cd build
   cmake --build . --parallel <threads> --config Release

   When using CMD, use -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=%VCPKG_ROOT%/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake to specify the toolchain. To build with plugins add -DCHATTERINO_PLUGINS=ON to cmake -B build command.
4. Run .\bin\chatterino2.exe