Prerequisits
- Download and install Visual Studio Community
When installing Visual Studio Community, don’t forget to indicate during the installation that you want the
Cmake build tool installed.
Visual Studio Community is the free version of the Visual Studio Software by Microsoft. We will use it later to compile FMT, as it comes with a compiler compatible with Windows.
- Download and install Mosek
Mosek is a solver for linear programming problems, which is exactly the kind of problems that FMT deals with. However, FMT can work with different other solvers, both free or not free.
- Create a
FMT-Installationfolder in your computer. Make sure that there is no spaces or accents in the path leading to the folder.
Spaces and accents in the path can cause errors with different programs and different steps of the compilations. It’s annoying, but that’s how it is !
- Open a command prompt, and use the
cdcommand to navigate to theFMT-Installationfolder.
To open the command prompt on Windows 10, simply press the
key, type cmd, and then press Enter.
The cd command is used to change the folder inside which the command prompt is ready to act.
Type cd .. to go to the parent folder from the one you’re in, and cd folder to go into a folder.