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Building

REQUIREMENTS
ANDROID BUILD REQUIREMENTS

You can safely ignore the android requirements if you are not building for Android

Installing Requirements

If you already have these you can skip directly Downloading The Project
This assumes you have already downloaded the files, if not read the requirements note to see where to get them

  1. Mount the VS2012 iso (en_visual_studio_ultimate_2012_x86_dvd_2262106.iso)
  2. Click on vs_ultimate.exe
  3. Continue installation as you would
    • Make sure to only select C++ Foundation Classes if you want to save space
  4. Once installed click close
  5. Eject the VS2012 iso and mount VS2012 Update 5 iso (mu_visual_studio_2012_update_5_x86_dvd_6967467.iso)
  6. Wait for it to complete
  1. Run the git setup file
  2. Click next until you get to install part
  3. Wait for it to install
  4. Click finish

Downloading the project

  1. Open a Powershell or a Command Prompt instance with administrator perms

  2. Turn on Git longpaths: Because there are some pretty long paths you can run this command to enable them:

    git config --system core.longpaths true

  3. Go into the path you want to want to download it into. (eg. C:\Users\Alex\Documents)

  4. Cloning the project Run

    git clone https://github.com/alexs-stuff/roblox-2016-source-code

    to clone and wait for it to finish

  5. Go into the directory it cloned to. (eg. C:\Users\Alex\Documents\roblox-2016-source-code)

  1. On the repo click Code then Download Zip and then wait until it finishes
  2. Extract it somewhere eg. C:\Users\Alex\Documents
  3. Go into the directory it extracted to (eg. C:\Users\Alex\Documents\roblox-2016-source-code\roblox-2016-source-code)

Building the project

Building for Windows

This assumes you have already built/installed the required project depedencies, if not go to Building Contribs

Open project solution

If you have VS2022 installed you can view using that Click on Client_2016.sln inside your project directory

Warning

If it prompts you with "Review Solution Actions" then ignore it by pressing Cancel

Building Roblox depedencies

These depdencies are required before building any of the projects (RCCService, RobloxStudio, WindowsClient)

It is recommended to follow the provided order

To build the target dependency right click and click build

  • 3rd Party:
    • boost.static
    • zlib
  • gSOAP:
    • soapcpp2
    • wsdl2h
  • Shaders:
    • ShaderCompiler
  • Rendering:
    • LibOVR
  • Core Components:
    • qtnribbon
    • sgCore
    • CoreScriptConverter2 (only needed for Release/Debug when building WindowsClient)

Building your target project

Right click on your target project (Must be WindowsClient, RobloxStudio or RCCService) and click build

Building for Android

This assumes you have already built/installed the Android Depedencies, if not go to Installing Requirements

  1. Open the local.properties file found in <Your Project Directory>/Android/ in any text editor
  2. Build libroblox.so for your platform with legacy mode
  3. Pack the OBB assets
  4. Build RobloxHybrid
  5. then Build APK