Most of the thirdparty dependencies are setup as git submodules.

1. Install Prerequisites:

• Windows 11
• Install CMake from https://cmake.org/download/
• Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022
• Visual Studio Installer - Individual Components:
  MSVC v143 - vs 2022 C++ x64/x86 build tools (v14.44-17.14)

2. Initialize Submodules
   (Skip this step if submodules were alreay recursively initialized in a parent folder)

• a. Open a command window
• b. Navigate to the thirdparty folder
• c. run git submodule update --init --recursive
• d. Wait for the submodules to finish downloading

3. Download libcigi

• a. In a web browser, go to https://sourceforge.net/p/libcigi/code/208/tree/
• b. Click Download Snapshot
• c. Extract the downloaded snapshot to the thirdparty folder.
• d. Rename the extracted folder to libcigi.

4. Build thirdparty libraries

• a. Open x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS2022
• b. Navigate to the thirdparty folder
• c. run thirdparty_config\vs2022\Build.bat