- Open the CMake gui.
- Set "Where is the source code" to wherever you put the SimGear sources (from the released tarball or the git repository).
- Set "Where to build the binaries" to a new empty directory (could be anywhere and any name, for example naming it simgear-build, at the same folder location as your unzipped SimGear source folder was put).
- Press
. The first time that the project is configured, CMake will bring up a window asking you to "Specify the generator for this project" i.e. which compiler you wish to use. Select Visual Studio 10, (or Visual Studio 10 Win64 for 64 bit), and press Finish. CMake will now do a check on your system and will produce a preliminary build configuration. - CMake adds new configuration variables in red. Some have a value ending with -NOTFOUND. These variables should receive your attention. Some errors will prevent SimGear from building and others will simply invalidate some options without causing build errors.
- First check the MSVC_3RDPARTY_ROOT variable. If it is not set, chances are that there will be a lot of -NOTFOUND errors. Instead of trying to fix every error individually, set that variable to the location of the directory structure that is presented above. Then press again.
- Set the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX variable to ${MSVC_3RDPARTY_ROOT}/install/msvc100/SimGear.
- Also check the lines with a checkbox. These are build options and may impact the feature set of the built program.
- First check the MSVC_3RDPARTY_ROOT variable. If it is not set, chances are that there will be a lot of -NOTFOUND errors. Instead of trying to fix every error individually, set that variable to the location of the directory structure that is presented above. Then press
- Repeat the process from step 5, until
is enabled. - Press .
- Start Visual Studio 2010 and load the SimGear solution (SimGear.sln) located in "Where to build the binaries".
- Choose the "Release" build in the VS2010 "Generation" toolbar
- Generate the solution with F7 key or right-click the top level "Solution SimGear" in the Solution Explorer and choose Build.
- If there are build errors, return to CMake, clear remaining errors, and .
- When Visual Studio is able to build everything without errors, right-click on the INSTALL project (further down within the "Solution Simgear" solution) and choose Build, which will put the include and lib files in ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}
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