Star Ruler 2

[vyshka]

They are streaming a multiplayer game of the expansion at the moment:

https://www.twitch.tv/blindmindstudios

[bbmike]

Looks like the developers just made this Open Source. Should be interesting to see what happens now.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/282590/discussions/1/1710690176754840807/

[Sparhawk]

It will be interesting to see what becomes of it. I was pleased with the what seemed to me as an innovative tech tree ( I liked the tech tree in the first Star Ruler as well).

[WYBaugh]

Simple compile with VS 2017 Community Edition.  Locked up debugging but ran with no issues as a standalone.  Pretty sweet...give me something to try and figure out what they're doing in C++.

[OJsDad]

Thanks Vyshka.  This was on my steam wishlist. 

[solops]

The interface ruined this otherwise fine game for me. If they had managed something smoother and more conventional I think it would have done very well.

[Jarhead0331]

The developers' attitude ruined this game for me.

[Tpek]

The developers' attitude ruined this game for me.

Well, now anyone can be a developer for this game (and it's free) :)

[OJsDad]

Can anyone here help me.  I downloaded the code, and load into Visual Studio 2017.  I then try to build it, but get the following error.

1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\VC\VCTargets\Platforms\x64\PlatformToolsets\v141\Toolset.targets(36,5): error MSB8036: The Windows SDK version 10.0.17134.0 was not found. Install the required version of Windows SDK or change the SDK version in the project property pages or by right-clicking the solution and selecting "Retarget solution".
1>Done building project "util.vcxproj" -- FAILED.


I downloaded the SDK, actually, it looks like a slightly newer version.  I launched VS again, and tried to build again, but get the same error.  What am I doing wrong or missing.

This is the SDK I downloaded.  Is there something within VS that I need to tell it to use/find the SDK?  https://developer.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk

Thanks.

[OJsDad]

Ok, I finally got passed the errors I posed above. 

I did the build on the Star Ruler 2 project, I right clicked on it and select build.  I direct called x64 is created, with a directory inside there called Debug.  There are a bunch of obj files in there, but I'm not seeing an EXE.  Do I need to this directory somewhere else.  What about an EXE file.


Thanks.

[WYBaugh]

Not sure if you found it yet but under the root of the StarRule2-Source-master is a bin directory.  Go there and then win64.   The .exe is there.

[OJsDad]

Thanks WYBaugh.

I redownloaded the source code last night, as I wasn't sure if I had screwed something up.  Now, then building the project, it get an error "Cannot open input file 'glfw64.lib'"  I don't see that lib in the source code folder.

[WYBaugh]

I see it in StarRuler2-Source-master\source\lib\win64

[WYBaugh]

Did you extract the zip and keep the directory structure?

[WYBaugh]

Try this...in the solution there is a GLFW project (almost at the top of the solution).  Right click on GLFW and select rebuild.  It will rebuild the source and put the .lib out in the directory I posted above.