What are generalized, rule of thumb approaches for cloning a repo and figuring out its build requirements? Especially project files pointing at non-existent files.

[RunaDacino]

Hello!

I want to fork and modify some annoying hard-coded values in https://github.com/allista/GroundConstruction pertaining to how ground kit size and time are calculated as stuff keeps exploding and becoming kilometers wide and tall. Not ideal. 
While I havn't worked with Unity/C# before, I trust I can leverage my python, BYOND and fortran/C/C++ experience to figure it out. It's just adjusting variables anyhow.

 

Unfortunately, I ran into an issue on building this project. The project file points to a "CSharp.warnings.xml" in the project directory that does not exist.

Spoiler

    <Import Project="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)/../CSharp.warnings.xml" />
    <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
        <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
        <DebugType>full</DebugType>
        <Optimize>false</Optimize>
        <OutputPath>GameData\GroundConstruction\Plugins</OutputPath>
        <DefineConstants>DEBUG;</DefineConstants>
        <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
        <WarningLevel>4</WarningLevel>
        <ConsolePause>false</ConsolePause>
        <CheckForOverflowUnderflow>true</CheckForOverflowUnderflow>
    </PropertyGroup>

 

 

Most other mods with gits have detailed build requirements, this one stumps me.

 

edit: I found I can edit some of what I want in the .GLOB file without rebuilding, but I still want to rebuild it for capping maximum volume rather than setting density to ... interesting values.

Edited May 28, 2024 by RunaDacino

[HebaruSan]

Found it:

• https://github.com/allista/AT_KSP_Plugins

Looks like this author's projects were all intended to be built from within that shared root folder (which is pretty unusual). I don't think there's a "generalized, rule of thumb approach" for finding stuff like that, unfortunately; for me, after seeing that same file referenced in multiple of his csproj files, I figured it had to be out there somewhere and started looking for a "build utils" type repo on his user profile.

[RunaDacino]

Thank you very much!

 

This is very different from my past experience of "everything you need is in the same repo with minimal external dependencies", but hey... new experiences.

Edited May 29, 2024 by RunaDacino