Building

This guide will help you set up your environment and compile Reducord on your local machine.

Before you begin, ensure you have the following installed:

• Visual Studio 2022 (with "Desktop development with C++" workload).
• CMake (version 3.15 or higher).
• vcpkg (Microsoft's C++ library manager).
• Git.

Reducord uses vcpkg to manage libraries like Dear ImGui.

1. Install vcpkg (if you haven't already):

   git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git
   .\vcpkg\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
   

2. Integrate with Visual Studio

   .\vcpkg\vcpkg integrate install

3. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/shablin/reducord.git
   cd reducord

4. Configure CMake: Replace [path_to_vcpkg] with your actual vcpkg installation path.

   cmake -B build -S . -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=[path_to_vcpkg]/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake

5. Build the project

   cmake --build build --config Release

• src/ — Core logic and Win32/DX11 entry point.
• assets/ — Icons and branding resources.
• external/ — Small header-only dependencies (if any).
• CMakeLists.txt — Build configuration.

• Missing DirectX Headers: Ensure you have the Windows SDK installed (included with Visual Studio).
• vcpkg Errors: Run vcpkg install imgui[dx11-binding,win32-binding] manually if the automatic manifest fails.
• Architecture Mismatch: Reducord is designed for x64. Ensure your CMake generator is set to Visual Studio 17 2022 with the x64 platform.