Using Visual studio with Cinder

Hi Nihara,

sorry to hear you’re still struggling with this. In your latest screenshot, it looks like you’re missing the boost library. I assume you’re using Cinder’s Git version? When cloning the repository, make sure to also update its submodules. A repository contains all files necessary to compile and build an application. Sometimes it depends on another repository (in this case the boost library), which is then added as a “linked repository” called a submodule. The easiest way to download all of that is when cloning Cinder like this:

git clone --recursive git://github.com/cinder/Cinder.git cinder_master

If you want to update the submodules afterwards, open a command window, browse to the root of your cinder folder and run:

git submodule update --init --recursive

See also this guide, which describes everything in more detail. I should mention that the guide was written with VS2013 in mind. When using VS2015 and above, open the cinder project file in the vs2015 folder. The name and location of the cinder.lib file have been changed, too. See this old post with a description.

-Paul