DotRecastNetSim/BuildingAndIntegrating.md

Building DotRecast.Recast.Demo

1. DotRecast.Recast.Demo uses dotnet 8 to build platform specific projects. Download it and make sure it's available on your path, or specify the path to it.
2. Open a command prompt, point it to a directory and clone DotRecast to it: git clone https://github.com/ikpil/DotRecast.git
3. Open <DotRecastDir>\DotRecast.sln with Visual Studio 2022 and build DotRecast.Recast.Demo
   • Optionally, you can run using the dotnet run command with DotRecast.Recast.Demo.csproj

Windows

• need to install microsoft visual c++ redistributable package

Linux & macOS & Windows

• Navigate to the DotRecast.Recast.Demo folder and run dotnet run

Running Unit tests

With VS2022

• In Visual Studio 2022 go to the test menu and press Run All Tests

With CLI

• in the DotRecast folder open a command prompt and run dotnet test

Integrating with your game or engine

It is recommended to add the source directories DotRecast.Core, DotRecast.Detour.Crowd, DotRecast.Detour.Dynamic, DotRecast.Detour.TitleCache, DotRecast.Detour.Extras and DotRecast.Recast into your own project depending on which parts of the project you need. For example your level building tool could include DotRecast.Core, DotRecast.Recast, and DotRecast.Detour, and your game runtime could just include DotRecast.Detour.