Typical directory layout for Draco development on Windows.

• I usually have 3 types of directories in my development environment (i.e.: work directory):
  • Source code for several projects.
  • Build directories for several flavors and projects.
  • Vendor directories for Third Party libraries required by Draco.

Source code directories

• I typically create c:\work and place source directories at this location.
• From a Visual Studio x64 Command Prompt.

cd /d c:\
mkdir work
cd work

• Create an environment variable so that work_dir=c:\work. This will be used by Visual Studio to keep temp files out of other directories.
• Checkout Draco to this location
  • You can use TortoiseGit, Git for Windows, or Git-bash-here.
  • This assums that you have forked the Draco repository
  • git clone [email protected]:<github moniker>/Draco.git draco

Build directories

• I typically create several build directories for build-flavors that I'm interested in:

cd /d c:\work
mkdir vs2017-x64
mkdir vs2017-x86
mkdir vs2017-x64-scalar
...

Vendor directories

• I usually create separate vendor directories for 32-bit installs and 64-bit installs.

cd /d c:\work
mkdir vendors64
mkdir vendors32

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