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Building
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Rainmeter can be built using the free Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop
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or any paid version of VS2012 (e.g. Professional). Note some projects (such as the
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NowPlaying plugin) cannot be built with the free Express version.
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The free VS2012 Express is available for download from:
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http://microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/products/visual-studio-express-for-windows-desktop
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VS2012 Update 2 is also required for Windows XP targeting support. It is available
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from:
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http://microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads#d-visual-studio-2012-update
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Once both Visual Studio and Update 1 have been installed, open Rainmeter.sln to build
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projects. With VS2012 Express, you may want to use RainmeterCPP.sln, which does not
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include projects that cannot be built with it.
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Building installer
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To build the full Rainmeter distribution, run Build.bat. If you receive "not found"
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errors, open Build.bat and change the variables at the top to match your system.
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To sign the installer and the Rainmeter executables, create a Certificate.bat file
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alongside Build.bat with the following contents:
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set CERTFILE=/path/to/PFXcert.p12
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set CERTKEY=certpassword
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Building old versions
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The Rainmeter GitHub repository does not contain the full source code history required
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to build the installer for versions prior to r1249. To obtain the full source from r1
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to r1248, use the old Google Code SVN repository located at:
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http://rainmeter.googlecode.com/svn
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2012-12-18 18:01:19 +00:00
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The build instructions above are applicable to r1130 - r1248. Build instructions for
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r27 - r1129 can be found in svn/wiki/.
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The language files for r963 - r1214 were in a separate repository (svn:externals),
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which is not available any longer. As a result, the language .dll's for those revisions
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cannot be built.
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