Reshade 2.0.x Open source.

Hi,
I'll like to show my appreciation for the release of the open code. Reshade is a work of genius. I'm not a developer or software engineer, however, I appreciate the opportunity to learn, and maybe even try to build from such a great tool.

I'll like to know if the released source from older versions is also ready to be build. I tried version 2.0.1 and I'm getting errors.
Crosire, do you mind telling us if those older sources are good to go?
and what do you need in terms of libraries or SDK's in order to build them.

Thanks a lot for your generosity. And congrats on the new job.

I've thought about this as well, and after some trial and error, I've been able to successfully build Reshade 1 and 2. Here's what you need (please correct me if I'm wrong about sth., crosire):

- you need different VC++ compiler and libraries for the different major releases, therefore you have to install Visual Studio 2012 ( iso ) for Reshade 1.x and Visual Studio 2013 ( iso ) for Reshade 2.x (I've tested only 2.0.3 and 1.1, so maybe they are some other differences)
- additionally boost (community developed C++ libraries) is required. The latest release works well for me.
- Reshade 2.x needs some libraries from the dxsdk, which are missing in it's dep folder. Fortunately they are present in 1.x releases, so one can simply copy "dep\dxsk\" to a 2.x release. Also DirectX SDK has to be installed.
- now first download boost 1.63.0 and extract it somewhere, e.g C:\boost
- for Reshade 1 and 2 we have to build some statically linked libraries for the 32bit and 64bit platform:
- run "C:\boost\boost_1_63_0\bootstrap.bat" to prepare the boost-build system
- to ease the building process, I've created two .bat files in "C:\boost\" with the following content ( reference ):

boost_vs11.bat
boost_vs12.bat
- those scripts invoke the specific VS toolset and start the compiling process. (the -j# parameter specifies the number of cpu cores used). If you only want to build Reshade 2.x, just run the second script
- this can take some time. The libraries for the different toolsets and platforms can then be found under "C:\boost\boost_1_63_0\stage\"

- now open ReShade.vcxproj of your desired Reshade source release (you can always choose the latest IDE, e.g VS2015)
- hit Cancel when the message "Upgrade VC++Compiler and Libraries" appears
- right click on Reshade (the project, not the solution) and choose "Properties"
- Change "Configuration" to "All Configurations" and "Platform" to "All Platforms"
- under "C/C++/General" go to "Additonal Include Directories", and add the path "C:\boost\boost_1_63_0"
- next change "Platform" to "Win32", switch to "Linker/General" and under "Additional LIbrary Directories" add the path "C:\boost\boost_1_63_0\stage\vs12\win32\lib" (assuming that you want to build Reshade 2.x)
- now change "Platform" to "x64" (we want to build ReShade64.dll as well), and also add the path "C:\boost\boost_1_63_0\stage\vs12\x64\lib"
- thats it, now you should be able to build Reshade without errors (don't forget to change configuration to "Release" before build, or you get some missing version.h errors)

edit:
-Releases before Reshade 1.0 require that "Microsoft Foundation Classes" are installed (Part of the Visual 2012 installation)

Versions before 3.0.0 had some dependencies like Boost which is why they are much harder to build and I haven't added any information about them. It's not very useful anyway, except for debugging a game that worked in one of those old versions and no longer does maybe.

Thanks a lot for all the info. Is really useful.