Assuming we have Git installed first we need to clone and initialize this repository via:

git clone https://github.com/kerskuchen/chotto.git --recursive

Assuming we have Rust installed and can run cargo commands we can build a release version by just running

cargo run --package ct_executable_packager

This creates a new folder named windows_shipping which contains the final executable ready to run with all needed resources.

If we have the Resource Hacker tool in our %PATH the above command script will also set a launcher icon and version information for our executable.

We can build a debug version by running the usual cargo build command. The Rust website has good information about how to start development with Rust.

For development it is a good idea to check out the cottontail submodule on the master branch via

cd cottontail
git checkout master

That will make sure that we don't accidentally commit something to cottontail in the detached HEAD state.