https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/37091
The library builds using CMake. I don't use the Colorglass repository for CommonLibSSE-NG because I found it hard to work out what was going on. Instead, CMakeFiles.txt manually imports its dependencies using FetchContent. Doing this brute force helped me understand CMake better, and makes it possible to experiment with other CommonLibSSE-NG variants. I don't plan to revert the build to use vcpkg.
CMake is confusing, no question. Things to know:
- it is a two-phase process: first configure to generate the build, then build
- once you have configured, you can only build that configuration until you change the configuration preset by removing the generated CMakeFiles and CMakeCache.txt, and re-running the configure step
- don't build in your source code directory, it clutters it up with cruft
- multi-target generators exist that allow build of different targets without reconfiguring, but that's just going to confuse me all over again.
- Check out the code
- Start a Visual Studio 20xx Powershell window to do the build
- change directory to the SmartHarvestSE root directory you just checked out.
- Configure using the appropriate preset cmake -B ./build -S . --preset Logging-MSVC|Release-MSVC|Debug-MSVC
- Build using the matching CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: cmake --build ./build/ --config RelWithDebInfo|Release|Debug
When you want to change the build you are working with, configure then build using the matching CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE. Versioned build artifacts go into ./build/zip in a subdirectory that matches the build config. If you edit CMakeFiles.txt or other CMake files, manually delete ./build/CMakeCache.txt and ./build/CMakefiles to trigger full rebuild. This should not be necessary for vanila code edits.
CMake minimum version per CMakeFiles.Txt
Visual Studio 2022, for its CMake Generator
WinRAR - rar.exe is used to compress the archive for release to Nexus. If you are just building locally, comment that part out at the end of CmakeFiles.txt
Scripts can be built using the Visual Studio Code Papyrus extension. There is a Papyrus project file SkyrimSE.ppj that should be edited according to your local setup.
Note: CMakeFiles is referring to all the generated CMakeFiles in your build directory... You are able to keep deps around to save having to redownload the project dependencies
