Incomplete prerequisites to build source

I would love to contribute but cannot anymore, Following the readme on a fresh install of windows 7 on a VM with everything by default won’t build, we need a version of VC++ because of a missing vcomp100.dll but even after that a bunch of tasks fails: Exceptions.txt And a bunch of *.dll metadata file missing and libcore.dll copy failed when rebuilding. The Xenko.GameStudio.exe generated crashes on launch.

I’m running it on a VM because I can’t run it on my main machine anymore, not sure what happened but after a re-installation of visual studio 2017 I couldn’t preview scripts or build it anymore; a whole bunch of “project not supported” issues. I have gone through and uninstalled / deleted every files related to visual studio, re-installed to different locations and with different configurations but this error stays there. Building from cmd>dotnet build/msbuild fails understandably, running xenko from the xenko launcher results in Exceptions2.txt

The issue could come from newer visual studio versions since I already had one at hand and everything was running fine before re-installation ?

Here are the additional components installed through VS installer on the VM:

C# and Visual Basic Roslyn compilers
MSBuild
Static analysis tools
C# and Visual Basic
.NET Framework 4.6.1 SDK
.NET Framework 4.6.1 targeting pack
Text Template Transformation
.NET Framework 4.7 SDK
.NET Framework 4.7 targeting pack
.NET Framework 4.7.1 SDK
.NET Framework 4.7.1 targeting pack
.NET Framework 4.7.2 SDK
.NET Framework 4.7.2 targeting pack
Visual Studio C++ core features
Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable Update
VC++ 2017 version 15.8 v14.15 latest v141 tools
Windows 10 SDK (10.0.17134.0)
Windows Universal CRT SDK
Windows 8.1 SDK
Windows XP support for C++
C++/CLI support
VC++ 2015.3 v14.00 (v140) toolset for desktop
Visual C++ compilers and libraries for ARM
Visual C++ runtime for UWP
.NET Core runtime
.NET Framework 3.5 development tools
NuGet targets and build tasks
.NET Compiler Platform SDK
GitHub extension for Visual Studio
Clang/C2 (experimental)
VC++ 2017 version 15.8 v14.15 Libs for Spectre (ARM)
Visual C++ compilers and libraries for ARM64
VC++ 2017 version 15.8 v14.15 Libs for Spectre (ARM64)
VC++ 2017 version 15.8 v14.15 Libs for Spectre (x86 and x64)
VC++ 2017 version 15.7 v14.14 toolset
VC++ 2017 version 15.6 v14.13 toolset
VC++ 2017 version 15.5 v14.12 toolset
VC++ 2017 version 15.4 v14.11 toolset
C++ Universal Windows Platform tools for ARM64

[xen2]

@Eideren thanks, I also noticed localization tools didn’t work well on my clean config but didn’t look into it yet. Will try to fix it so that your custom steps are not required anymore.

[xen2]

@Eideren cool, thanks so much for the bug report & help!