Before you can get started you probably have to compile Skia and MSDFGen and the C-Wrapper.

1. Run git submodule update --init (Pulls the msdfgen)
2. Modify buildskia.ps1 as needed
3. Run ./buildskia.ps1 (Pulls and compiles skia)
4. Modify the msdfgen project as needed
5. Run ./build_msdfgen.ps1 build all (Compiles msdfgen)
6. Run ./build_c.ps1 build all (Compiles the c-wrapper)

Depending on your system you might need to modify buildskia.ps1 in order to correctly compile it.

• In order to compile SKIA you need to have Visual Studio in your Path variables (specifically: Powershell has to find devenv). If you don't want to modify your path variables globally you can add it locally by modifying buildskia.ps1 (at the top of the file is an example)
• You must have the ninja build system. You can either install it globally or simply download it, put it anywhere you want and add it to the local Path variables by modifying buildskia.ps1
• If you have multiple versions of Visual Studio installed the build system might pick the wrong version of msvc. In that case you can modify buildskia.ps1. Set the win_vc argument for the generator-calls (the lines that start with bin/gn gen)
• If you want to use a different Runtime Library you can modify the extra_cflags for the generator-calls in buildskia.ps1 (By default we use "Multithreaded Static Debug" for Debug and "Multithreaded Static" for Release)

You might have to edit the msdfgen-Project before building it.

• The Visual Studio Project is quite old, you might want to Upgrade it (devenv /Upgrade .\msdfgen\Msdfgen.sln)
• MSDFGen uses an older version of skia. Because of this you have to add the "skia"-Folder to the include directories in the project settings under "C/C++->General->Additional include directories"
• You might want to change the project settings "C/C++->General->Debug Information Format" to "Program Database (/Zi)" to prevent getting a warning when building the beef project
• You have to disable "Whole Program Optimization" in the project settings "Advanced->Whole Program Optimization"

If you want to expose more functions simply add them to stub.h and stub.cpp (and the beef library of course) and rerun ./build_c.ps1 build all