You should have already installed the C++ SDK.

We assume you have a working C++ toolchain and are using CMake to build your project. For this project we will let Rerun download and build Apache Arrow's C++ library itself. To learn more about how Rerun's CMake script can be configured, see CMake Setup in Detail in the C++ reference documentation.

Setting up your CMakeLists.txt

A minimal CMakeLists.txt looks like this:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16...3.27)
project(example_project LANGUAGES CXX)

add_executable(example_project main.cpp)

# Download the rerun_sdk
include(FetchContent)
FetchContent_Declare(rerun_sdk URL
    https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/releases/latest/download/rerun_cpp_sdk.zip)
FetchContent_MakeAvailable(rerun_sdk)

# Link against rerun_sdk.
target_link_libraries(example_project PRIVATE rerun_sdk)

Note that Rerun requires at least C++17. Depending on the SDK will automatically ensure that C++17 or newer is enabled.

Includes

To use Rerun all you need to include is rerun.hpp:

#include <rerun.hpp>

Building

cmake -B build
cmake --build build -j
./build/example_project

You're now ready to follow the Log and Ingest tutorial.