Building without Visual Studio
This page will be a tutorial for building of the Source SDK 2013 without Microsoft Visual Studio.
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Contents
Obtaining msbuild.exe
You can get it from Visual Studio 2017 download page. On the bottom, click “Other Tools and Frameworks”, then choose “Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017”. https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/
Direct Download: https://www.visualstudio.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=BuildTools&rel=15
Start that setup file (vs_buildtools_xxx.exe), and choose “Web Development Build Tools”
Step 1: MSBuild.exe
Open up the command prompt (C:/windows/system32/cmd.exe) and type "msbuild.exe".
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You should get the response:
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version foo.0.bar.baz Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MSBUILD : error MSB1003: Specify a project or solution file. The current working directory does not contain a project or solution file.
Step 2: Compiling
Execute:
msbuild.exe C:\path\to\rootdir\of\sourceSDK2013\games.sln
And thats it. Pretty simple, huh? Now you don't have to launch the massive bloated program Visual Studio 15 is.
Compiling for Windows on Linux (and vice versa)
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Compiling from other IDEs and Compilers
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