Use CLion

Installation

You can install CLion from JetBrains official website here. Just notice that CLion is commercial software which is neither free nor open-source. So it might better to look for a different option. Otherwise there's few to say about its installation or configuration since it comes with quite useful tools built-in. The only thing to keep in mind is that you might still need to install VisualStudio on Windows to get the MSVC compiler.

Development

When you startup CLion, select the local directory of the cloned framework and open it as project. Once the project has been loaded, you can run CMake via the "Reload CMake Project" option in the context menu (right mouse-click in the project file browser). This will create all build and launch targets.

Execution

If you want to build or launch a specific project, select it via the dropdown to the left of launch button with the green play-symbol. You can find it in the top right tool bar. In any case CLion also provides a terminal built-in for you which can be opened via the top menu under "View > Tool Windows > Terminal".

Hopefully this explaination gives you an idea how to use CLion to develop with the VkCV framework.

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