Install

There are two ways to get the executable file. If you are an user, there is no necessity to build the executable file from the source code by yourself. We recommend you to use our pre-built files, see Pre-Built. However, if you are a developer, please look at Build From Source.

Pre-Built (Recommended)

https://github.com/JueXiuHuang/MapArtist/releases/latest

Just download the zip file from the Github Release, and unzip it.

release

Build From Source

Preparation

We support building MapArtist on two platforms, Windows and Linux.

Windows

Git: download dependencies from Github.
MSVC (Microsoft Visual C++): the compiler used to compile the whole project.
CMake: configure and manage the build system.

CMake version >= 3.26 required

Linux

Git: download dependencies from Github.
```
sudo apt-get install git
```
GCC: the compiler used to compile the whole project.
```
sudo apt-get install build-essential
```
CMake: configure and manage the build system.
```
sudo apt-get install cmake
```
CMake version >= 3.26 required
Zlib
```
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
```
OpenSSL
```
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
```

Steps

Clone the project.

git clone https://github.com/JueXiuHuang/MapArtist

Configure
```
cd MapArtist
cmake -B build -S .
```
Build
```
cmake --build build
```
The executable file will be generated in MapArtist/bin