03. Building the Mod

• Tools Quick Start
• Build Quick Start
• Troubleshooting

This guide will help you build the mod from source, it requires a Windows 10 PC.

Tools Quick Start

• Install Visual Sudio 2019 Community
  • Select Desktop development with C++ in Installer Options
    • Select MSVC v141 - VS 2017 option
    • Go to individual components and select C++/CLI support for v141 option
• Download and install Windows 8.1 SDK from here
• Add msbuild location to your path (default is %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\MSBuild\Current\Bin)

Build Quick Start

• Open sln file in Visual Studio
• Select No Upgrade for both the Windows SDK and VC++ version prompts (if this appears)
• Select the TestConsole configuration
• Run Local Windows Debugger
• Files are output to bin\Win32
• Logs showing rules being configured can be seen @ bin\Win32\log\nco.log

Troubleshooting

If you get a COM error when trying to open the solution/project, follow the below steps:

• Close Visual Studio
• Open an admin command prompt
• Run

  regsvr32 %SystemRoot%\System32\msxml3.dll
  regsvr32 %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\msxml3.dll

• You should now be able to open the project/solution