Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer

This combines a Browser Helper Object with a singleton engine process to block ads in Internet Explorer. The engine process embeds libadblockplus.

Building

You need Microsoft Visual C++ (Express is sufficient) 2012 and Python 2.6. Make sure that python.exe is on your PATH. When building with Express Edition you also need Windows 7.1 Device Kit (not version 8) to satisfy the ATL dependency, set WINDDKDIR environment variable to the installation directory of the Device Kit.

• Execute createsolution.bat to generate project files, this will create build\ia32\adblockplus.sln (solution for the 32 bit build) and build\x64\adblockplus.sln (solution for the 64 bit build). Unfortunately, V8 (which is used by libadblockplus) doesn't support creating both from the same project files.
• Open build\ia32\adblockplus.sln or build\x64\adblockplus.sln in Visual Studio and build the solution there. Alternatively you can use the msbuild command line tool, e.g. run msbuild /m build\ia32\adblockplus.sln from the Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt to create a 32 bit debug build.

Running

In order to test the extension, you need to register the Browser Helper Object with IE. You can do this by locating AdblockPlus.dll (e.g. in build\ia32\Debug) and running (with elevated privileges):

regsvr32 AdblockPlus.dll

For the UI to work, you also need to copy the html and locale directories to the same directory AdblockPlus.dll is in.

Building the installer

You need WiX 3.8 (make sure %WIX%\bin is in %PATH%) and InnoSetup 5.5.

• Execute installer\createsolutions.bat to generate the installer project files, this will create a bunch of project files in the installer\build\ia32 and installer\build\x64 directories.
• Open and build installer\build\ia32\installer.sln and installer\build\x64\installer.sln in Visual Studio. Alternatively you can use the msbuild command line tool, i.e. run msibuild /m installer\build\ia32\adblockplus.sln and msibuild /m installer\build\x64\adblockplus.sln from the Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt.
• Either open and compile installer\src\innosetup-exe\64BitTwoArch.iss in InnoSetup or run iscc.exe installer\src\innosetup-exe\64bitTwoArch.iss.