Building Bloxstrap from source
These are instructions for people who want to compile and build the source code for contributing, debugging, etc. If you simply just want to download and install Bloxstrap, see the Installing section in the README.
Note that this can only be done on Windows as this uses the .NET Desktop Runtime.
First, download the source repository using your method of choice (git clone, GitHub Desktop, as a zip archive, etc).
From there, there's two ways to build the source code. If you don't already have Visual Studio installed, it's recommended to just build with .NET CLI.
Note that these instructions are for building a release binary. Otherwise, you can just use Visual Studio's debugging tools.
Open Bloxstrap.sln in Visual Studio, right-click the Bloxstrap project in the Solution Explorer, and select 'Publish'. Configure your build options if you need to (you shouldn't have to change anything), and click 'Publish'.
If you don't have Visual Studio installed, you can just download and install the .NET 6 SDK for this one.
Open a terminal, and set your location to the folder containing Bloxstrap.sln. Then, run the following command:
> dotnet publish /p:PublishProfile=Publish-x64
If you need to configure any build options, run dotnet help publish to learn how to configure options for publishing.
Navigate to the Bloxstrap folder (the one containing Bloxstrap.csproj), where the compiled binaries are located in bin\Release\net6.0-windows\publish. From there, you can either run and install it fresh, or copy it into your Bloxstrap install location.
If you've come this far, you may also want to disable automatic updating for convenience.