Building the C code should be fairly straight forward. We strive to make the code as portable as possible and provide two example build environments.
Building the example experiment using CMake has minimal requirements:
- CMake version 3.19 or greater
- Working C compiler supporting C99 (any recent gcc, clang or msvc will do)
To build the included example experiment, run
cmake -B build .
cmake --build build
This will give you a debug build of the core COCO code and an example
experiment in the build/ subdirectory.
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On Windows the final executable is often placed in a subdirectory of the
build/ directory depending on the build type. Check in build/Debug/ or
build/Release/.
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Instead of cmake, you can also use meson and ninja:
meson setup build
meson compile -C build