Document sample commands to generate project files using CMake on Windows

[faheel]

In the Development section in README, add sample command(s) for properly generating project files using CMake for some popular Windows IDE, such as Visual Studio.

[arnavb]

@faheel Well for Visual Studio, I recommend that you do something similar to my Appveyor script in my C++ project template. The script I use is:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake -D<options> -G<VS Generator> ..
cmake --build . --config <configuration> # Default build
cmake --build . --target <target> --config <configuration> # Other targets, such as 
    # coverage or test. For testing, ctest is a better option.

In the script above, <options> are any options you pass to CMake (except CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE which doesn't work for multi-config generators anyways).

<VS Generator> is a visual studio generator such as those listed here.

<configuration> needs to be a valid CMake configuration (Debug, Release, DebWithRelInfo, MinSizeRel). If it is excluded, the default configuration is (usually) Debug.

<target> can be any build target. Eg for any target make <target>, you have to pass --target <target> to cmake --build.

I hope this helps and let me know what you think!

[faheel]

@arnavb Thanks a lot for the detailed info! I'll try running these commands when I log on to Windows next time.

[dnb02]

Hello @faheel I am new to opensource, I would like to help. Please tell me what I can do.

[faheel]

@dnb02 You can try out what arnavb suggested above, and also checkout #38. It would be great if you could include these in the existing GitHub action and see if it passes on Windows.

I'll try running these commands when I log on to Windows next time.

I still haven't logged in to a Windows machine after 5 years 😄