Build and test

The full documents are docs/12_BUILD.md and docs/14_TESTING.md.

What you need

• Windows 10 (22H2) or 11, 64-bit.
• Visual Studio with the C++ workload (MSVC v143 or later, a Windows SDK of 22621 or later) and CMake 3.28 or later.
• The .NET SDK that global.json pins.
• PowerShell 7.

The one gate

./build.ps1 check

It is the whole gate, and CI runs the same script. In order:

Step	What fails it
Native build and ctest	A C++ warning (/W4 /WX) or a native test.
clang-format, dotnet format	Code not formatted as committed.
Managed build and tests	A C# warning (warnings are errors), or a test — the integration tests included.
coverage-gate	Too little coverage of Domain and Application.
rules-validate	A detection-rules file that breaks its schema or weakens the anti-cheat blocklist.
versioninfo, chokepoint, hookinventory, package-closure	A binary without its version resources; an injection anywhere but the guard's own code, or an evasion primitive anywhere; a hook not in the inventory; a developer tool in the package.
license-check, accuracy-check, notice-check	A package without its licence, a copy of the accuracy statement that drifted, a source file without its licence header.
changelog-check, release-notes, resx-audit	The changelog or the release-notes extractor broken, or a string missing in English, Vietnamese or Japanese.
struct-mirror, test-artifacts, wiki-check, placeholder guard	The shared-memory mirror test not run, test leftovers, a wiki link that leads nowhere, a stray {{…}} in a shipped document.

Other tasks: ./build.ps1 native, ./build.ps1 managed, ./build.ps1 format (writes the formatting). A skipped gate is reported, never hidden.

Tests

• Managed: one project per layer under tests/ (xUnit v3, FluentAssertions). The App's tests render every page, window and dialog under the real theme dictionaries.
• Native: ctest suites for the guard, the ring, the layout, the Vulkan layer, the telemetry DLLs.
• Integration: the hook-harness is hooked for real, on WARP, so it runs on CI without a GPU.
• A new test is shown red first on the unfixed code: a check that has never failed has not been seen to work.

Looking at the App with real data

FrameLedger.exe --data-dir <a copy of a data folder> opens the App as a viewer: no agent is started or contacted, and nothing on the PC is changed. Never run a development build against your own %LOCALAPPDATA%\FrameLedger: a newer build upgrades the database, and an older one cannot open it again.