For those begging in this journey, these are the steps:
(When installing below make sure that you add CMake and GIT to your system PATH for your user)
Download and install CMake
Download and install GIT
Create a desktop folder called MyUgens
Open terminal and type
cd C:\Users\YourUserName\Desktop\MyUgens
Now you will download the folder with example plugins and the SuperCollider’s source code (which will provide an API and components for your homemade building process)
git clone --recursive https://github.com/supercollider/example-plugins.git
git clone --recursive https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider.git
Move to the directory of the plugin that you want to compile:
cd C:\Users\YourUserName\Desktop\MyUgens\example-plugins\01a-BoringMixer
Create a build folder and move to there:
mkdir build
cd build
Set the flags for cmake Modify the user name to access SC’s source code folder :
cmake -A x64 -DSC_PATH=C:\Users\YourUserName\Desktop\MyUgens\SuperCollider ..
More cmake options:
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG ..
Compile:
cmake --build . --config Release
This will output a .scx file at C:\Users\YourUserName\Desktop\MyUgens\example-plugins\01a-BoringMixer\build\Release
Now you need to copy 01a-BoringMixer.sc, 01a-BoringMixer.scx and 01a-BoringMixer.schelp into a folder
of your Platform.userExtesionDir, which is generally:
C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\SuperCollider\Extensions
Go to SuperCollider, recompile the class library, boot the server and test your UGen