Programming Howto:Building and Customizing BCI2000

Install prerequisites

Programming Howto:Install Prerequisites

Register with BCI2000 Project

Programming Howto:Register with BCI2000 Project

Download the BCI2000 source code

Choose a checkout directory

Enter user name and password as chosen in the registration step

Configure BCI2000 for compilation

Double-click "Configure.sh.cmd" in your BCI2000 build directory

Tell CMake which Qt installation to use

Enter the path to a Qt directory that is consistent with the compiler you are going to use

Click "Configure"

Choose a generator that is consistent with the Qt directory chosen above

Choose build options...

... and which extensions to compile, before clicking "Generate"

Amongst other files created by CMake, your BCI2000 build directory will now contain a solution file

Compile BCI2000

Your BCI2000 "prog" folder does not contain any executables yet

Open the solution file your BCI2000 "build" folder

The solution file in the VisualStudio IDE

Switch the build type to "release"

From the "build" menu, choose "Build solution"

Once the build is finished, ...

... your BCI2000 "prog" folder will contain a number of executables, one for each module