Sciter build setup

Sciter uses premake5 tool to generate solutions and projects for Visual Studio, XCode, CodeLite (Linux) and make based builds.

NOTE: use of Premake is optional - source tree includes pre-generated projects and solutions. See #2.

Two "root" Premake5 files:

1. /premake5.lua - main file

Invoke it in root Sciter sources folders as:

> premake5.exe vs2015

where vs2015 can be replaced by vs2017 or vs2019 to generate solutions for different versions of Visual studio.

If you want to build the engine that will work on WindowsXP then follow these steps:

Windows platform SDK for Windows 10 is required. Standard VS2017 setup installs needed SDK but for VS2015 download and install Windows 10 SDK (10.0.16299.91) from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/sdk-archive/
Run
> premake5.exe vs2015 --windowsxp or
> premake5.exe vs2017 --windowsxp
command at root folder of Sciter source tree.
Use /build.windows/sciter.sln and /build.windows/sciter.static.sln to build the Sciter.

> premake5 xcode4

> premake5 codelight --cc=gcc

This will generate CodeLight solutions for GCC compilers or this for make builds:

> premake5 gmake2

Solutions and projects are located in these folders:

Visual Studio solutions and projects:

sciter.sln builds:
- /sdk/bin.win/packfolder.exe
- /sdk/bin.win/tiscript.exe
- /sdk/bin.win/.../sciter.dll
- /sdk/bin.win/.../scapp.exe
sciter.static.sln builds:
- /lib.win/xXX/sciter.static.lib - static monolithic library that includes code of Sciter as a whole.
sciter.lite.sln builds various Sciter.Lite versions of the engine as a DLL and as a static lib.
/sdk/builds.windows/sciter.sdk.sln builds official SDK examples.

XCode workspaces and projects

sciter.xcworkspace builds:
- /sdk/bin.osx/packfolder
- /sdk/bin.osx/tiscript
- /sdk/bin.osx/sciter-osx-64.dylib
- /sdk/bin.osx/scapp
sciter-static.xcworkspace buids:
- /lib.osx/x64/libsciter.static.a - static monolithic library that includes code of Sciter as a whole.

CodeLite workspaces and projects