OS. Set Up Your Coding Environment
In order to program OpenSTAAD in C++, you will need to set up a development environment.
A develop environment is typically a program that supports writing the
code as well as a suite of tools to make that job easier. While
computer code could be written in any plain text editor, an
integrated development environment (IDE) will make the job much
easier and more efficient. For this guide, you will use Microsoft
Visual Studio.
Note: Microsoft has an excellent reference on getting started
programming in C++ at https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/getting-started-with-visual-studio-for-c-and-cpp-development/.
- Download and install the Visual Studio IDE by checking the steps from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/install-visual-studio
- Launch the Visual Studio 2019 application