Installing development environment (IDE)
Writing plugins with Plugin-SDK implies the use of Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 or later.
When installing Visual Studio, make sure that you have selected these components:
- Common tools for VC++
- Windows SDK
! The names of these components may differ slightly in different versions of Visual Studio.
Visual Studio 2022 is distributed in three main versions - Community, Professional and Enterprise.
You can download Visual Studio 2022 at the page https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/
The Community version is available for free, Professional and Enterprise versions are available for trial period.
In the installer window, select the "Develop classic applications in C++" component, and on the right, in the "Summary" section, select these components:
For more detailed settings, go to the "Individual components" tab. Here you can enable the Git and GitHub extensions for Visual Studio.
In the "Language Packages" tab, select the languages you want.
When you start Visual Studio for the first time, you need to select a color theme, as well as the parameters of the development environment ("Visual C++").
Try to avoid paths with space characters. This applies to project folder path, along with paths to Plugin-SDK folder, paths to CLEO SDK and to GTA folders.