Compiling and Debugging FORTE with MS Visual Studio Express

FORTE with a win32-architecture can only be created with Visual Studio. The following describes how to compile FORTE with win32-architecture.

Create MS Visual Studio Project for FORTE with CMake

Open cmake-gui
choose source folder <forteroot>
choose desired destination folder. We recommend <forteroot>/bin/win32
press the Configure button and choose the version of visual studio that is used and native default compilers. Press the Finish button afterwards.
Check FORTE_ARCHITECTURE_WIN32
press the Configure and afterwards the Generate button

Compile Forte with Visual Studio Express

Open the generated FORTE project with Visual Studio and change from Debug to Release mode. Build FORTE afterwards. A forte.exe file should be generated in <forteroot>/bin/win32/src/Release.

Debug Forte with Visual Studio Express

Open the generated FORTE project with Visual Studio and change from Release to Debug mode. Set FORTE as the main project.

Set FORTE as main project in Visual Studio Express

And Push F5 or click start debugging