Compiling on Windows

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Install Visual Studio (VS 2019 community or later)

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/

Install Git Bash

https://gitforwindows.org/

Install vcpkg

Start Git Bash
Go to root directory cd /c
Clone vspkg git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg
Enter the directory cd vcpkg
Run bootstrap ./bootstrap-vcpkg.bat

Install dependencies

Choose 32 or 64 bit or both. This will take some time so be patient.
- 32 bit: ./vcpkg install wxwidgets boost libarchive
- 64 bit: ./vcpkg install wxwidgets:x64-windows boost:x64-windows libarchive:x64-windows
Make libraris available to Visual Studio ./vcpkg integrate install

Clone project

Create and enter the directory where you want the sources

cd /c
mkdir developer
cd developer

Clone RME git clone https://github.com/hjnilsson/rme.git

Build and run

Open C:\developer\rme\vcproj\RME.sln in Visual Studio
Choose Debug or Release and Win32 or x64 in the toolbar
Press F5 to start debugging