Installation

VCPKG

First, we need to install VCPKG.

VCPKG is a package manager for C++ libraries. It's a great tool that makes it easy to install and manage C++ libraries on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.

Here's how you can install Crow on your Windows machine using VCPKG:

1. Clone the VCPKG repository: git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git
2. Run the bootstrap script: .\vcpkg\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
3. Integrate VCPKG: .\vcpkg\vcpkg integrate install

Crow

Now that we have VCPKG installed, we can install Crow:

Assuming VCPKG is installed globally:

1. Install Crow: vcpkg install crow
2. Integrate Crow: vcpkg integrate project

CMakeLists.txt

Now that we have Crow installed, we need to add it to our CMakeLists.txt file in order to build our project.

The content of the CMakeLists.txt file should look like this:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.26)

project(main)

find_package(Crow CONFIG REQUIRED)
find_package(OpenSSL REQUIRED)
find_package(Boost REQUIRED)
find_package(Threads REQUIRED)
find_package(mailio CONFIG REQUIRED)


# # Set the target architecture to x64
# set(CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM x64)

# add_executable(main ./Test/database.cpp) 
add_executable(main main.cpp) 

target_link_libraries(main PUBLIC OpenSSL::SSL OpenSSL::Crypto)
target_link_libraries(main PUBLIC Crow::Crow)
target_link_libraries(main PUBLIC Boost::headers Threads::Threads OpenSSL::Crypto OpenSSL::SSL)
target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE mailio)

Build

Now that we have Crow installed and added to our CMakeLists.txt file, we can build our project by running the following commands:

rm -rf build

mkdir build
cd build

cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="path/to/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..
cmake --build .

./Debug/main.exe

In this case, the path to VCPKG:

rm -rf build

mkdir build
cd build

cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="C:/Gobble/CADT/PERSONAL/Backend_Oatpp/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..
cmake --build .

./Debug/main.exe