Building Red Salamander

Quick Build Commands

# Build entire solution (default)
.\build.ps1

# Build in Release configuration
.\build.ps1 -Configuration Release

# Build specific project
.\build.ps1 -ProjectName RedSalamander
.\build.ps1 -ProjectName RedSalamanderMonitor
.\build.ps1 -ProjectName Common

# Clean and rebuild
.\build.ps1 -Clean
.\build.ps1 -Rebuild

Parameters

Output Locations

• •Debug: .build\x64\Debug\*.exe, *.dll
• •Release: .build\x64\Release\*.exe, *.dll
• •Debug (ARM64): .build\ARM64\Debug\*.exe, *.dll
• •Release (ARM64): .build\ARM64\Release\*.exe, *.dll

Build Order (Dependencies)

1. •Common - Shared library (no dependencies)
2. •RedSalamanderMonitor - Monitoring app (depends: Common)
3. •RedSalamander - Main app (depends: Common, FileSystem, RedSalamanderMonitor)
4. •FileSystem - Plugin (no dependencies)

Visual Studio Build

1. •Open RedSalamander.sln in Visual Studio 2022+
2. •Select configuration (Debug/Release) and platform (x64)
3. •Build → Build Solution (Ctrl+Shift+B)

vcpkg Integration

• •Uses vcpkg for package management
• •Dependencies defined in vcpkg.json
• •Keep vcpkg.json files up to date
• •Pin versions for critical dependencies

Dependencies

• •WIL - Windows Implementation Library (RAII wrappers)
• •fmt - Modern C++ formatting library
• •DirectX - Graphics and multimedia APIs (D2D, D3D11, DXGI)

Build Script Features

• •Automatically locates MSBuild (VS 2022 or later)
• •Builds entire solution when no ProjectName specified
• •Shows build time and output file sizes
• •Supports multi-processor builds (/m)
• •Displays both executables when building full solution