Developer Info

This page provides tips and hits for OpenRails developers.

Using Visual Studio on Windows 11

Besides downloading and installing Visual Studio (2022 Community) with the .NET Desktop Development package, the following is required to compile the code:

• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5: Download from Microsoft and install (to Windows).
  The build reports that SP1 is needed.

• .NET Core 3.1 Desktop Runtime: Download from Microsoft and install (to Windows).
  The output from the build contains a link to the download.

After the above, there still is the following in the output, but RunActivity runs fine.

Could Not Find <dirpath>openrails\Program\RunActivityLAA.*
Tool 'dotnet-mgfxc' (version '3.8.0.1641') was restored. Available commands: mgfxc