apollo requires that you have installed the following libraries:
CMake in a reasonably recent version is used as the build system.
Especially on Windows, make sure that any environment variables neccessary to let CMake find the librarys are set correctly: BOOST_ROOT for Boost and LUA_DIR for Lua.
As an alternative to setting these variables you can also install the libraries to the (CMake) standard locations or add the containing directories to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH.
What’s left to do is a standard CMake build. The following contains nothing special, so if you are familiar with CMake, you can just skip the rest.
Navigate to the apollo root directory (with the include and src subfolders) in your shell, then execute the following commands:
mkdir build # Name basically arbitrary, but build is already in .gitignore
cd build #
cmake .. # Use the -i flag to see build options (e.g. debug build).
make
sudo make install # Optional.
Use the Visual Studio command prompt as your shell and do as in Unix, with the following modifications: You may need to add -G "Visual Studio 12" (or 13 for Visual Studio 2015) to the cmake command line. Then use msbuild ALL_BUILD.vcxproj instead of make and msbuild INSTALL.vcxproj instead of sudo make install if you want to install apollo. As in Unix, you will need administrative rights for the latter, but because Windows has no sudo equivalent, you may need to e.g. launch a new VS command prompt as administrator. Also, use the /p:Configuration=RelWithDebInfo (or =Release) option to build the release version instead of the default Debug configuration.
Nothing special: You need to add the include directory to your compiler’s include paths and link the apollo library for release and the apollo-d library for debug builds. For Boost, no addidional libraries need to be linked, just making the includes available is enough. Of course you will also need to add Lua’s include directory and link the library.
If you use CMake, you can use FindApollo.cmake: Make it available to CMake by either altering the CMAKE_MODULE_PATH CMake variable or copying it to a standard location. Then you can use find_package(apollo REQUIRED) and it will look in standard locations and in the ones specified by the APOLLO_DIR environment or CMake variable. It then makes APOLLO_INCLUDE_DIRS and APOLLO_LIBRARIES available.