Building

How to build the game!

For those brave enough to be alpha testers...

Initial Installation

1. Download and install Visual Studio 2022 Community (this will take a while; you might want to disable some of the options you won't be using, such as mobile development, to save time):

   https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=Community&rel=17

2. Open Visual Studio.

3. On the right side of the screen, click "Clone or check out code".

4. Paste in this URL for the "repository location": https://github.com/ekolis/FrEee.git

5. Click the "clone" button in the lower right hand corner.

6. When the code is done downloading, press F5 to build and run the game, or F6 to just build it without running it.

Running the game when it's already built

1. To run the game again without loading up Visual Studio, you can also run FrEee/FrEee.WinForms/bin/debug/FrEee.exe, assuming there haven't been any changes to the code that you need to compile.

Pulling Changes

When I need to make changes to fix bugs or whatever, but you've already got the game set up, the process is a bit simpler:

1. Open Visual Studio.

2. Choose the FrEee solution from the recent list.

3. Open Git Changes (if you can't find it, press Ctrl-Q and type it in to search for it).

4. Click "pull" in Team Explorer (the solid down arrow at the top of the window)

5. Once the code is done downloading, press F6 to build the game.

6. Once the game is done building, you can press F5 to run it, or run the executable that was generated in the FrEee\Free.UI.WinForms\bin\Debug\net90 folder.

Let me know if you run into any problems!