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Hello everyone, welcome back.

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In this video, I will create a default project template,

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that we can then use to create new projects from.

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This makes us so much more productive and a lot less chances for errors as well.

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So we're going to create the project, save it as a template,

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then when we create new projects, we'll use that template as the base.

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So let's get started.

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You notice here that I've got the

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previous workspace that I was working on in the installation videos.

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So let me just create a brand new workspace, I'll go through the flow again

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 just so that you can see what it's like one more time.

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The more you see it, the easier it becomes.

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So I'm going to click right here new, create a new workspace.

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I'm going to select C++ workspace, click OK.

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Then I'm going to put it right inside my users folder,

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workspaces folder, I'm going to call this one Workspace2.

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Again you can name that anything you like.

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Make sure create the workspace under a separate directory is checked,

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 I'll click OK.

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Perfect, so now you can see our workspace has been created.

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Now I can right click on the workspace and create a new project.

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We can name this project again, whatever we like, so I'll just call it project1.

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Make sure that create the project in its own folder is checked.

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The category is console,

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type is simple executable g++,

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the compiler is MinGW,

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on Linux and Mac you'll choose GCC for the compiler.

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The debugger is the GNU gdb debugger,

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on Mac you will choose lldb vs-code

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and then we want to select the codelite,

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make file generator as the build system.

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So I'll select and click OK.

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And that's going to create my project,

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as you can see in the workspace here with the source folder

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 and the default main CPP which we are going to remove and write our own.

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So let's do that real quick.

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Pound include iostream, just like we did before

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using, I'll put a space here.

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Using namespace standard.

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Then we'll create our main function right here.

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We'll say cout and what I'm going to do here is I'm going to display

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 default template.

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End line again endl not end1

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and we'll return zero.

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That's it.

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Notice that this is red, so we need to save our project,

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I'm going to press CTRL S on Windows or command S on Mac

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 and we've got just what we had before.

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Now before we build this, let's set up our project.

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So I'm going to select project 1 and click on that wrench.

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In the general tab I want to go to the

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working directory right here,

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delete that and replace it with project path.

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Just like we did before, again uppercase P for Project and Path,

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I'll press tab and it'll light up dark like that.

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You don't have to change anything else,

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in fact don't touch anything else, It's just like it's supposed to be,

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we'll click on compiler now, over here on the left,

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go to my compiler options

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and click those three dots in the button.

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And I'm going to select enable C++ 17 features right

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 there which is the STD equals C++ 17.

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I'll click OK, then I can come over to my linker

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and if you like you can put a dash static

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 in the linker options again, dash static, no spaces in there.

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Mac users do not do this,

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leave that blank, otherwise you're going to get linker errors.

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So you can do this for Windows and for Linux, but

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Mac users leave it blank, that's it.

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I'll apply, I'll press OK.

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Now let's make sure that we can build, so we're going to come up here to build,

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rebuild project.

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We've got a clean build, no errors.

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Let's run it to make sure we can run it.

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And it should display default template,

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It does indeed, so we've got a good build, we've got a good project.

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Now what we can do is we can save this project as a template

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and we can use it later to create new projects

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from it, without having to do all this setting stuff again.

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So let's do that, let's right click on the project 1.

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And we'll comedown here to where it says save as template,

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okay?

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Let me do that one more time, right click on project 1, save as template.

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The project name I'm just going to call this

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 default project.

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You can call this anything you like.

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The project category, this says where am I going to store this?

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I'm going to store it in a category called user templates,

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 It doesn't really matter where you put it as long as you remember where you put it.

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So user templates works for me and the description again can be anything.

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Just going to say my default project.

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There we go, and I'm going to press OK.

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Done.

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Now what we can do is?

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We can create new projects from that template, so let's do that.

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I'll click on the workspace, I'll right click, new project.

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The project's name could be anything, I'll just say Project 2, again remember,

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no spaces, no special characters, no international characters anywhere.

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The category now, what we'll do is?

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We'll pick user templates

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and for type, we'll pick default project which is what we just created.

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Double check that, if got MinGW or GCC on Linux and Mac

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and the GNU debugger or the lldb vscode on Mac.

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They should be populated from the template.

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We've got CodeLite make file generators,

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you can just give it a once over and make sure everything looks good

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and I'll press OK.

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Now you can see that Project2 has been created,

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however project1 is still the active project.

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So we can make Project 2 the active project by just double clicking on it.

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And now Project 2, you can see it's italicized in bold.

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So let me close this up here

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 and let's open up our project 2's main CPP.

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Notice I got the default template code which I wrote earlier.

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If I select project two and I click the wrench,

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 you can see that in the general, it did not keep the project

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path unfortunately.

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This is a bug that hopefully will be fixed soon,

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so in the mean time, we'll just have to type Project path,

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 just like that.

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But the compiler option did take,

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you can see the STD equals C++ 17

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and the linker option, you can see the static right here.

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So unfortunately, we still have to come in here and type Project Path,

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but it's a little bit less work than we had to do before.

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Apply, okay

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and we're good to go now, we can come over here to Project 2, build it.

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And you can see the C++ 17 over here,

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 you can see the static being used over here, so all this is good

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and we can build and run.

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And I'll execute it and it should say default template,

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just like we did before.

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We can obviously change this and I'm going to say hello from Project 2.

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I'll save that and I can build and run again.

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There's our build,

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It's a clean build, always be sure that you don't have any errors here before you run.

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I'll execute and hello from Project 2.

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So there you go, this makes life a little bit easier,

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unfortunately we still have to set that project path right here

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 for the general options.

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But it's a lot less than we had to do before and I think we're good to go here.

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So you can use this technique, so that finishes up the

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configuration of the default template.

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I'll see you in the next videos and we'll start coding.