Developers guide: Setting up development environment

1. Windows
   1.1. Install Qt
   1.2. Install Microsoft Visual Studio
   1.3. Install Git
   1.4. Clone Control Center repo
   

Windows

install Qt

Get online installer here.

In Select Component step check these components:
In Qt:

1. Qt 5.10.0
   1.1. MSVC 2015 32-bit
   1.2. MSVC 2015 64-bit
   1.3. MSVC 2017 64-bit
   1.4. Sources
   1.5. Qt Charts
   1.6. Qt WebEngine
   1.7. Qt Network Authorization
   1.8. Qt Remote Objects (TP)
   1.9. Qt WebGL Streaming Plugin (TP)
   1.10. Qt Script (Deprecated)
   
2. Tools
   2.1. Qt Creator 4.6.1 CDB Debugger Support
   2.2. Qt Installer Framework 3.0
   

Install Microsoft Visual Studio

Get online installer here

When installing, in Worklads tab, check marks:

1. Windows
   1.1. Universal Windows Platform development
   1.2. .NET Desktop development
   1.3. Desktop development with C++
   

In Summary field, marks should be on these items:

1. Universal Windows Platform development
   1.1. Blend for Visual Studio
   1.2. .NET Native and .NET Standard
   1.3. NuGet package manager
   1.4. Universal Windows Platform tools
   1.5. Windows 10 SDK (10.0.17134.0)
   1.6. Graphics debugger and GPU profiler for DirectX
   

2. .NET desktop development
   2.1. .NET desktop development tools
   2.2. .NET Framework 4.6.1 development tools
   2.3. C# and Visual Basic
   2.4. Blend for Visual Studio
   2.5. .NET profiling tools
   2.6. Just-In-Time debugger
   

3. Desktop development with C++
   3.1. Visual C++ core desktop features
   3.2. Just-In-Time debugger
   3.3. VC++ 2017 version 15.7 v14.14 latest v141 tools
   3.4. C++ profiling tools
   3.5. Windows 10 SDK (10.0.17134.0)
   3.6. Visual C++ tools for CMake
   3.7. Visual C++ ATL for x86 and x64
   3.8. Test Adapter for Boost.Test
   3.9. Test Adapter for Google Test
   

Install Git

Get installer here

Check if PATH variable contains git directory:

1. Open Command Prompt
   
2. run echo %PATH% command
   
3. check if PATH contains ..\Git\cmd directory
   3.1. if it doesn't contain, press Win+S to open search
   3.2. type in Edit the system environment variables, press Enter
   3.3. press Environment Variables...
   3.4. in System variables panel double click on Path variable.
   3.5. Press New then, add ..\installedDirectory\Git\cmd (default directory is C:\Program Files\Git\cmd)
   3.6. Press OK and close these windows.
   

Clone Control Center repository

1. Go to profile settings
   
2. Go to SSH and GPG keys
   
3. Add New SSH key
   3.1. Adding SSH keys
   
4. Download
   4.1. Go to CC github page
   4.2. Press Clone or download
   4.3. Press Use SSH
   4.4. Copy the SSH address
   4.5. Open Command Prompt
   4.6. Run this command: git clone 'paste SSH address from step 4.4 here, without quotes'