In addition to a working gcc build environment, install the following libraries, e.g. using apt: boost (dev packages, at least version 1.54), snappy, zlib, cmake.

For example on Ubuntu (> 16.04) should install all the dependencies you need:

apt-get install cmake cython g++ libboost-all-dev libsnappy-dev python-stdeb zlib1g-dev

In addition to a working build setup (Xcode) install the following libraries using Homebrew:

brew install boost
brew install snappy
brew install lzlib
brew install cmake

Now you should be able to compile as explained above.

The following procedure has been confirmed working with Visual Studio Community 2019, other versions or environments should work, too.

• install cmake
• install boost for windows from https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/
• build and install using cmake, zlib: https://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz
• build and install using cmake, snappy: https://github.com/google/snappy/archive/refs/tags/1.1.8.tar.gz

Use cmake to build keyvi executables along with unit tests.

Example:

mkdir build_dir_<BUILD_TYPE>
cd build_dir_<BUILD_TYPE>
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=<BUILD_TYPE> ..
make

<BUILD_TYPE> can be release, debug, coverage or any other available by default in cmake

To run cpp unit tests just execute unit_test_all executable.

example windows command (make it 1 line):

cmake
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
-DBOOST_ROOT="C:\\local\\Boost"
-DBOOST_INCLUDEDIR="C:\\local\\Boost\\boost"
-DBOOST_LIBRARYDIR="C:\\local\\Boost\\lib64-msvc-14.2"
-DSnappy_INCLUDE_DIR="C:\Program Files (x86)\Snappy\include"
-DSnappy_LIBRARY="c:\Program Files (x86)\Snappy\lib\snappy.lib"

(zlib should automatically be found if installed at the default location)

to build on the commandline (in addition cmake creates Visual Studio configs):

cmake --build . --config Release