Cosmos/Docs/Installation/DevKit.md

Prerequisites

• (Free) source code of Devkit from Cosmos on GitHub

• (Free) Visual Studio 2013 Community

• If using Visual Studio 2010 Express, you will need to download the GitHub for Windows tool.

  • (Free) InnoSetup QuickStart Kit
  • This is required to build the setup kit which is used to build and install the Visual Studio integration libaries for Cosmos.
  • During install it will ask you about optional components to install. Be sure you check "Install Inno Setup Preprocessor".

Installation

• Look in the downloaded sources and run install.bat with admin privileges (UAC will ask for permission), needed for install in system directories.
• After installation is complete, Visual Studio will automatically open and you may begin programming with your new, modified copy of Cosmos.

Parameters to the install.bat

The install.bat accepts following parameters

• -USERKIT Run installer for the User Kit only. By default installer build and install Dev Kit.
• -RESETHIVE Reset Visual Studio Experimental Hive after installation.
• -NOTASK When specified installer would be run directly instead of running as the task in the Task Scheduler
• -NOCLEAN Don't clean solution before run installer.
• -NOVSLAUNCH Don't launch VS after installation.
• -IGNOREVS Ignore running VS during installation.
• -VS2015 or /VS2015 Run installer for the VS 2015.
• -VS2013 or /VS2013 Run installer for the VS 2013. This is the default.
• -VSEXPHIVE or /VSEXPHIVE Use Visual Studio Experimental Hive for installation.