Windows

Here's how you can install Crow on your Windows machine.

Getting and Compiling Crow

Using A package manager

VCPKG

Crow can be simply installed through VCPKG using the command vcpkg install crow

Manually (source or release)

Microsoft Visual Studio and VCPKG

The following guide will use example_with_all.cpp as the Crow application for demonstration purposes. VCPKG will be used only to install Crow's dependencies.

1. Generate crow_all.h by navigating to the scripts folder and running python3 merge_all.py ..\include crow_all.h.
2. git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git
3. .\vcpkg\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
4. .\vcpkg\vcpkg integrate install
5. Create empty Visual Studio project.
6. In solution explorer, right click the name of your project then click Open Folder in File Explorer.
7. Copy crow_all.h, example_with_all.cpp, vcpkg.json to opened folder.
8. Add crow_all.h to Header Files and example_with_all.cpp to Source Files.
9. In solution explorer, right click the name of your project then click Properties.
10. Under vcpkg, set Use Vcpkg Manifest to Yes and Additional Options to --feature-flags="versions".
11. Set Debug/Release and x64/x86.
12. Run.