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🖥️ Building NEXT on Windows (MSVC)

Prerequisites

  • Git
  • CMake ≥ 3.10
  • Visual Studio 2022 with C++ workload
  • vcpkg
  • HDF5 (installed via vcpkg)
  • Python 3

Steps

  1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/TimGoTheCreator/NEXT.git
cd NEXT
  1. Install vcpkg and HDF5
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git C:/vcpkg
C:/vcpkg/bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
C:/vcpkg/vcpkg install hdf5[hl]:x64-windows
  1. Build NEXT
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64 -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=C:/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake ..
cmake --build . --config Release
cd ..
  1. Run a built-in example simulation
cd examples/TwoBodies
python two_body.py
..\..\next.exe two_body.txt 8 0.01 0.1 vtu
  1. View results

Open the .vtu output in ParaView.