Current clone-build-run experience is not seamless.

[zwcloud]

We must ensure that the following process is never interrupted by any errors that is hard to solve.

1. git clone
2. build solution
3. debug/release run demo projects

Some hard errors that should be avoided:

1. Windows SDK version not right: users need to download the required windows SDK, which is really time-consuming.
2. .NET Framework / .NET Core not installed: time-consuming
3. Provide pre-built dll/so if a developer don't want to build native libraries by him/herself, which is time-consuming.

Target: Clone, build C# projects and run demos seamlessly on Win10 with VS2017 only.

• Windows
• Linux

[zwcloud]

Windows

Done for specific environment on Windows in 1a26181:

• Windows SDK Version: 8.1
• Platform toolset: Visual Studio 2017 (v141)
• Platform: x86 and x64

The built demos now runs on Win7/10 x64 without any additional configuration. For Win7/Win10 x86, the property of demo projects should be changed to x86 (Not AnyCPU and prefer 32bit).

Note: Native dll and pdb files are copied with NativeLibraryCopier.exe in the pre-build event of C# projects. The copier has taken all platforms(x64/x86) and Debug/Release version into consideration.

[zwcloud]

Linux

Trying to build native cairo in Windows Subsystem for Linux. See Targeting the Windows Subsystem for Linux from Visual Studio.

TODO