Columns UI is released under the Lesser GNU Public Licence (see COPYING and COPYING.LESSER).
To clone the repo and dependencies, download and install Git, and then run:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/reupen/columns_ui.git
This repo makes use of Git submodules. If you're not familiar with them, check out the guide here.
Visual Studio 2017 15.5 is required to build Columns UI. You can use the free community edition.
You'll need Windows 10 SDK version 10.0.16299.0 (installed by default with Visual Studio 2017 15.5 and the 'Desktop development with C++' workload).
The Microsoft Guideline Support Library (GSL) is required to build Columns UI.
Currently, the recommended way to install it is using vcpkg.
You can set up vcpkg, and install Microsoft GSL, using the following commands (run outside of the Columns UI source tree):
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
cd vcpkg
.\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
.\vcpkg integrate install
.\vcpkg install ms-gsl
Open vc15/columns_ui-public.sln in Visual Studio 2017.
Select the Release configuration and the Win32 platform, and build the solution.
If the build is successful, foo_ui_columns.dll will be output in vc15\Release.
You can use MSBuild if you prefer. In a Developer Command Prompt for VS 2017 (in the start menu), run:
msbuild /m /p:Platform=Win32 /p:Configuration=Release vc15\columns_ui-public.sln
If the build is successful, foo_ui_columns.dll will be output in vc15\Release.
For a clean build, run:
msbuild /m /p:Platform=Win32 /p:Configuration=Release /t:Rebuild vc15\columns_ui-public.sln
Compilation using Clang is not currently supported, as Clang does not currently integrate with VS 2017, and also as Clang rejects the /permissive- compiler option.