A fun folly writing an ATC simulator. See the vice website for more information and documentation about how to use vice.

To build vice from scratch, first make sure that you have a recent go compiler installed: (go compiler downloads). Then clone the vice repository to a folder on your computer.

To build vice, you must also have the mingw64 compiler installed. Make sure that your PATH environment variable includes the mingw64 bin directory.

Next, make sure that SDL is installed on your system. You may build it from source, though installing prebuilt binaries is easier. You can download prebuilt binaries from the libsdl releases page.

You will then need to set the following environment variables, with INSTALL in the following replaced with the directory where you installed SDL2-devel:

• CGO_CFLAGS: '-I INSTALL/SDL2-2.24.0/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include'
• CGO_CPPFLAGS: '-I INSTALL/SDL2-2.24.0/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include'
• CGO_LDFLAGS: '-L INSTALL/SDL2-2.24.0/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib'

To build vice, run the command go build -ldflags -H=windowsgui -o ./vice.exe . from a command shell in the repository directory.

If you have homebrew installed, running brew install sdl2 will install SDL2. Otherwise consult your package manager documentation or install SDL from source.

From a command shell in the repositoiry directory go build -o vice to build a vice executable.

On Ubuntu, sudo apt install xorg-dev libsdl2-dev will install the necessary libraries. Then, from a command shell in the repositoiry directory go build -o vice to build a vice executable.

For vice releases, there are a few more steps in the build process so that the executable has an icon and that OSX builds are universal binaries that run on both Intel and Apple CPUs. See the scripts in the osx and windows directories for details. See also the github workflow for the Windows build for details about how the Windows vice installer is created.