Building from source

To build QSM.Windows from source, You will need the following:

• .NET SDK 10
• Windows 11 SDK 10.0.26100
• Inno Setup (Optional, For building installers)

The .NET SDK and Windows SDK can be managed with the Visual Studio Installer, which is recommended if you also wish to modify the code with Visual Studio.

You can optionally install .NET and Inno Setup with WinGet:

# Installs .NET SDK 10
winget install --id Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.10

# Interactively install Inno Setup
winget install --id JRSoftware.InnoSetup.7 -e -s winget -i

The Windows SDK doesn’t seem to have its newer versions available on WinGet.

Building

# Fetch the source, Either by downloading and extracting it from GitHub
# or clone with Git using:
git clone https://github.com/lines-of-codes/QSMSharp.git

cd QSMSharp/QSM.Windows

# Build & Publish a release build
dotnet build -c Release -a x64 -p:DefineConstants="DISABLE_XAML_GENERATED_MAIN"

The -p:DefineConstants="DISABLE_XAML_GENERATED_MAIN" tells the source generator to not create a Program class, as it is already defined by QSM itself.

The constant, defined in QSM.Windows.csproj, is normally respected when building in Visual Studio, However it may not be the case for the .NET CLI from manual testing.

Creating the installer

Open the QSM.Windows/Setup.iss file in Inno Setup, and modify the following line:

#define ProjectRoot "C:\Users\Satakun Utama\QSMSharp"

Replace the path to point to where the QSMSharp project is placed at.

Visual Studio usually builds to QSM.Windows\bin\x64\Release\net10.0-windows10.0.26100.0 while the .NET CLI command above builds to QSM.Windows\bin\Release\net10.0-windows10.0.26100.0\win-x64\

Please take note of what the build command output says and adjust the path accordingly in the Inno Setup [Files] section.