Setting up Visual Studio to compile Ingnomia under Windows
Back in 2014, I really had fun with Gnomoria . I have 443.4 hours of playtime, and it made me sad when I found out that the original dev abandoned the project. That's when I learned of Ingnomia , an open source project to continue its legacy. Now I also learned that Ingnomia's development seem to have stalled. So I decided to work on some improvements on my own, so maybe the community will get motivated yet again. Gemini suggested that I tried to swap Noesis GUI, which is non-free, for Dear ImGui, which is open source. Setting up Ingnomia project for development is a pain due to Noesis requiring a trial key to work with it. And I naively thought that was the only issue with Noesis. The first issue I ran into was setting up project dependencies. Qt requires you to sign up to download libraries, which is quite frustrating. I learned that you can download and compile them using vcpkg, so that's what I decided to do. mkdir build cd build cmake .. -A x64 -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=...