Building from Source

File	Contents
src/TroopersSkate3Launcher.cs	Main window, the settings catalog, presets, save/PLAY logic, tray, Discord hand-off, command line.
src/LauncherPages.cs	The Advanced, Profiles, Saves & DLC, Controller, Logs and Launcher pages and their controls.
src/LauncherServices.cs	Background services: paths and prefs, GPU detection (Vulkan), save backups, log parsing, update check, Discord IPC, shortcuts, system info, XInput/DirectInput.
src/LauncherPagesV31.cs	The Game files, Mods and Benchmark pages, the Photo Mode extras, the Steam / driver / crash-report cards, controller navigation and the What's new dialog.
src/GameServices.cs	v3.1 background services: mod loader, recomp installer and rollback, game-file checks, benchmark runner, Steam shortcuts.vdf writer, driver check, crash dumps.
src/LauncherPagesModding.cs	The Modding tools page, the Launcher-page modding toggle card, and Mods-page preview thumbnails and warning rows.
src/ModdingServices.cs	Modding background services: mod.json format 1 metadata, Recompiled+ flavor detection, compatibility/dependency warnings, and new-mod scaffolding.
src/build.cmd	Builds the exe with the C# compiler that ships with Windows.

Double-click src\build.cmd (or run it from a terminal). It uses %WINDIR%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\csc.exe, so no Visual Studio or .NET SDK is needed, and writes bin\Trooper's Skate 3 Recomp Launcher.exe. The code is C# 5 so that built-in compiler accepts it.

The exe gets the Skate 3 icon only if src\skate3.ico exists, or if skate3.exe is one folder above src, in which case the icon is extracted automatically. The icon is EA artwork, so it isn't committed.

Releases: put the release notes in .github/release-notes/vX.Y.Z.md, then push the tag. Pushing a tag like v3.0.1 makes GitHub Actions build the exe on Windows, zip it with the README and LICENSE, and create a draft GitHub release with those notes and the zip attached — review it on the Releases page and press Publish. Every push and pull request is also built, and the zip is attached to the run as an artifact.

Checking your changes without Windows

Mono's compiler at the same language level catches most mistakes:

mcs -langversion:5 -target:winexe -out:bin/launcher.exe \
    -r:System.Windows.Forms.dll -r:System.Drawing.dll -r:System.Core.dll -r:System.IO.Compression.dll src/*.cs

mcs can't handle the apostrophe in the real exe name, so build to another name. Windows is still the real target: fonts, DPI, icons, hard links and the registry behave differently, and the CI build on windows-latest is the source of truth.

See Contributing for the rules every change has to follow.