Windows release

[sevenfm]

Is there a possibility to make a windows release, for those who have no idea how to compile it?
I'm a long time fan of CtP2 and AE edition and wish to play this mod and maybe report bugs if found, but I doubt I could properly build it from repository.

[orlovskyjavaprofi]

As far as i know you need visual studio there once loaded sln project you can may try to compile.

[LynxAbraxas]

Is there a possibility to make a windows release, for those who have no idea how to compile it?

Yes possibilities exist, but have not been realized so far (contributions welcome!).
AppVeyor CI could be used for Windows builds, see #6 and as reference see also: #348 and #294.

[LynxAbraxas]

@thistleknot did you succeed in the end on #348?

[thistleknot]

no, I kind of moved on from games these days.

[LynxAbraxas]

Seems GL-CI now offers shared runners for building on windows:
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/windows.html#shared-windows-runners
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/01/21/windows-shared-runner-beta/
which already provide VS:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ci-cd/shared-runners/images/gcp/windows-containers/blob/main/cookbooks/preinstalled-software/README.md
So we would just need a contribution to

civctp2/.gitlab-ci.yml

Lines 17 to 23 in 92cb24b

	.build: &build
	stage: build
	# tags:
	# - multicore
	variables:
	GIT_SUBMODULE_STRATEGY: recursive
	script:

to also build the current sources for CTP2, not sure though if that could be achieved with the current use of dind