I cant build the project about engine-sim

[BoogieHasFun]

you shouldn't try to compile if you cant understand what "dependencies" is, rather you should learn a lot more about programming and just download the program from the release tab.

sorry if past me got mad, people get by saying stuff like this to me and they get upvoted, i get punished when i say it. sorry :(

[walbermr]

you shouldn't try to compile if you cant understand what "dependencies" is, rather you should learn a lot more about programming and just download the program from the release tab.

sorry if past me got mad

I'm sorry @BoogieHasFun, but you was very unfortunate on your sentence. I have a computer engineering degree, a masters in computer science, work on my free time on C++ developing, and I am facing issues trying to understand what "(make sure to build the optional dependencies)" is and if it or lib versioning is giving me issues. I am pretty sure you would be very upset if you took more than 20 minutes trying to understand what an author/contributor was trying to say in the documentation.

Fortunately, one of my tasks in my volunteer side job is to make building easier for beginning programmers. If none contributors are looking to resolve this issue, I will try my best to do so.

[BoogieHasFun]

you shouldn't try to compile if you cant understand what "dependencies" is, rather you should learn a lot more about programming and just download the program from the release tab.
sorry if past me got mad

I'm sorry @BoogieHasFun, but you was very unfortunate on your sentence. I have a computer engineering degree, a masters in computer science, work on my free time on C++ developing, and I am facing issues trying to understand what "(make sure to build the optional dependencies)" is and if it or lib versioning is giving me issues. I am pretty sure you would be very upset if you took more than 20 minutes trying to understand what an author/contributor was trying to say in the documentation.

Fortunately, one of my tasks in my volunteer side job is to make building easier for beginning programmers. If none contributors are looking to resolve this issue, I will try my best to do so.

did you just show off your masters degree?

sorry :(

[Hacker1245]

You do know that the project has prebuilt binaries in the releases right?

[TMCChamp]

Thanks for replying so fast @Hacker1245, no I didn't know and I don't know what you mean by prebuilt binaries and how it will affect the procedure to build the program.

[dreadednote]

You can download prebuilt binaries from here

[TMCChamp]

@xstondis thanks for the link but what do I do after downloading them and of course extracting them? I'm now just lost with what the steps are. I'm a novice in computer coding and stuff like this if you couldn't tell already. Sorry if I'm just being a drag at this point.

[dreadednote]

Download build_1_3a.zip extract it and open bin/engine-sim-app.exe
you dont need to build it it's built already

[TMCChamp]

@xstondis It worked, thank you so much. You don't know how much time I spent trying to follow those steps. I really appreciate your help.

[TMCChamp]

I clicked on the link from the video hoping it would lead me to a simple download but then I saw the "How to build" and assumed its the only way to do it because its the only thing I saw on the page, they never mentioned that there was an already built version.

[Please-Pick-a-Name]

You can download prebuilt binaries from here

i was very unaware the existence of this, i think i need to go delete my comment now :(

[ange-yaghi]

@TMCChamp As stated in the video, the link is to the code, not a program. That being said, there are releases available in the releases section which are pre-built for Windows. I wasn't anticipating there would be this much interest in this project so we don't have a formal release strategy yet.

@BoogieHasFun let's keep things civil please.

@walbermr building optional dependencies has a special meaning for boost. If you search online for this phrase, you should be able to find tutorials about this. The boost dependency will, however, be removed soon since it isn't really necessary for this project.

[BoogieHasFun]

@TMCChamp As stated in the video, the link is to the code, not a program. That being said, there are releases available in the releases section which are pre-built for Windows. I wasn't anticipating there would be this much interest in this project so we don't have a formal release strategy yet.

@BoogieHasFun let's keep things civil please.

@walbermr building optional dependencies has a special meaning for boost. If you search online for this phrase, you should be able to find tutorials about this. The boost dependency will, however, be removed soon since it isn't really necessary for this project.

ill try my best