Windows Compilation

Windows Compilation

A guide on how to compile Metamod:Source for Windows

Prerequisites

Installing Visual Studio 2022

Download the community version installer and install the Desktop development with C++ component

File structure

For the sake of simplicity we will be doing everything in an alliedmodders folder

mkdir alliedmodders
cd alliedmodders

Download AMBuild

git clone https://github.com/alliedmodders/ambuild
pip install ./ambuild

# In case of an error try
# cd ambuild && python setup.py install && cd ..

Instructions

Double check you are still in the alliedmodders folder and run the following commands

mkdir hl2sdk-root
git clone https://github.com/alliedmodders/hl2sdk/ --branch cs2 hl2sdk-root/hl2sdk-cs2

git clone https://github.com/alliedmodders/metamod-source --recursive
cd metamod-source

setx HL2SDKCS2 C:/absolute/path/to/hl2sdk-root/hl2sdk-cs2
setx MMSOURCE112 C:/absolute/path/to/metamod-source

mkdir build && cd build
python ../configure.py -s cs2
ambuild
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