ESSA build instructions

This guide will show you how to build and run ESSA from the source.

Install required third-party dependencies

cmake - as a build system
Some "lower-level" build system, we use ninja but make or Visual Studio should work
SFML - for GUI
GLEW - currently for nothing but is linked
PythonLibs - for PySSA

Arch Linux/Manjaro:

sudo pacman -Ss base-devel sfml glew python3

EssaGUI is a GUI framework written specifically for Essa. You can download it from the GitHub repository.

TODO: make it a submodule

From the project root directory:

git clone git@github.com:essa-software/EssaGUI.git
cd EssaGUI
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -GNinja
ninja
sudo ninja install
cd ../../

From the project root directory:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -GNinja

(Replace -GNinja with your generator)

From the build directory:

ninja

From the build directory (This is required because otherwise the app won't see resources, see #10):

./out