Hello!

Many thanks for your guiding materials!

I have a couple of questions:

1) Do you know by the way how to access skirmish difficulty values in TD? or how to access the AI skirmish name (e.g., "AIPLAYER1 Medium")

2) How can one read the hotkey value assigned to a specific task. For example, how can I know if the deploy key was pressed given that each user can define a different key for that specific task...?

Many thanks in advance for your support!

(sorry, max 1000 chars limit here in comments, so my comments are split up in 2 parts. Also they show up in reversed order)

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And under Optional (checked items):
- Just-In-Time debugger
- VC++ 2017 version 15.9 v14.16 latest v141 tools
- C++ profiling tools
- Windows 10 SDK (10.0.17763.0)
- Visual C++ tools for CMake
- Visual C++ ATL for x86 and x64
- Test Adapter for Boost.Test
- Test Adapter for Google Test
- Visual C++ MFC for x86 and x64

Individual components (checked items):
- Visual C++ ATL for x86 and x64
- Visual C++ MFC for x86 and x64

Note that you need quite some disk space to install Ms Visual Studio and all components above (a dozen or so GBs).

This was the final hint that seemed to fix it for me:
"If you get an error about afxres.h, open the Visual C++ installer, hit "modify" on your installed copy, go to "individual components" and look for things labeled MFC and install those."

Based on this , I THINK (not sure) the only components you really need are:
- Windows 10 SDK (10.0.17763.0)
- Visual C++ ATL for x86 and x64
- Visual C++ MFC for x86 and x64

(Before you read on, try the above video by Eternal Nooblet first.
That looks easier/better than what I have below)

Just as an alternative on how to build mods , this is how I got things working:

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I used this guide and that was very clear:
https://gameplay.tips/guides/7816-command-and-conquer-remastered-collection.html
There are lots of guides, but this one was the most concise and still detailed enough for me.


For building I use (downloaded free) Microsoft Visual Studio 2017, but picking the right "optional" bits was tricky and took some trial and error before building worked without errors.
Below I show which components I have installed now, and now building seems to work ok:

Building in Windows 10:

In "Visual Studio Installer", modify, under "Installation details" (right side) it shows:

- Visual Studio core editor
- Desktop development with C++

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Hey, Kerekupai-meru, good to hear it's working now. I was able to compile and update my mods with VS2019 without problems. If VS2017 fixed the issue for you, maybe it'll help someone else, thanks for updating the thread.

HI again! I installed VS 2017 and problem solved! Cheers!

Hi! many thanks for the guide! I have followed the steps, but cannot mod anymore after the update. Any idea why?

Before it was working for me without problems. Now even when I compile the code in Visual Studio without modifying anything, the game crashes. In VS it says success without error after the build...

Many thanks in advance for the support!

Added a note about PDB files. Removed them from the Folder Structure section. They are only useful for debugging.

Using 8.1 SDK means you have to install that specific version. I opted for using the latest SDK and version of C++ tools. I have not had any issues. What problems do you think that flag will cause?

You shouldn't be using the WINDOWS_IGNORE_PACKING_MISMATCH at all, it will cause problems.
If you are having issues you probably dont have the correct Windows SDK installed (you need the Windows 8.1 SDK for the remasters to work)