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In order to ease the process of running on different platforms, we will be using [CMake](http://www.cmake.org/) for our assignments. You will need a CMake installation of version 2.8+ to build the code for this assignment. It should also be relatively easy to build the assignment and work locally on Windows, OSX or 64-bit version of Linux. Building on ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi, some Chromebooks) is currently not supported.
Once you build the project, you should see the following GUI when runninng `./drawsvg ../../svg/basic`.
We recommend using [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/download) on all platforms. Once you install CMake and VSCode, you will also need to install the C/C++ extension within VSCode.
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We have a beta build support for Windows systems. You need to install the latest version of [CMake](http://www.cmake.org/) and install [Visual Studio Community](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/). After installing these programs, you can run `runcmake_win.bat` by double-clicking on it. This should create a `build` directory with a Visual Studio solution file in it named `drawsvg.sln`. You can double-click this file to open the solution in Visual Studio.
You may need to modify the Visual Studio path in `runcmake_win.bat` if you are using Visual Studio 2022.
If you plan on using Visual Studio to debug your program, you can change `drawsvg` project in the Solution Explorer as the startup project by right-clicking on it and selecting `Set as StartUp Project`. You can also set the commandline arguments to the project by right-clicking `drawsvg` project again, selecting `Properties`, going into the `Debugging` tab, and setting the value in `Command Arguments`. If you want to run the program with the basic svg folder, you can set this command argument to `../../svg/basic`. After setting all these, you can hit F5 to build your program and run it with the debugger.
If you feel that your program is running slowly, you can also change the build mode to `Release` from `Debug` by clicking the Solution Configurations drop down menu on the top menu bar. Note that you will have to set `Command Arguments` again if you change the build mode.
