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The vortex how to#
The vortex install#
The vortex code#

see for a description of the extension api.see structure.md for an overview of how the project is organized.

The vortex install#

If a dependency install failed for some reason or you cancelled it, you will have to manually install that package (see the downloads directory). The automatic variant will skip dependency download and install if the download was installed previously. In that case you will have to see if the error is something that needs to be fixed, then restart from the last step that failed. ) and leave the checkout in an inconsistent state. network problems, dependencies that changed remotely. The build tools are unfortunately not particularly robust, so the build may break for various reasons (i.e.

Find the installer and an already unpacked version in dist.

yarn dist to build (this will take a while).

The vortex code#

The scripts ( electron-builder-oneclick.json and electron-builder-advanced.json) are set up to require code signing withĪ certificate you don't have so change that.Switch to an appropriate branch, if necessary.this should create a new directory vortex in the current working directory (i.e.Create and cd to an appropriate directory (i.e.Can't hurt thoughĬloning and building the Vortex source code This sets up yarn to use the c++ build tools we just installed, you probably only need to do this if you've also installed other versions of Visual Studio.Run yarn config set msvs_version 2022 -global.In the installer, make sure you enable the build tools themselves, the latest windows SDK (version doesn't actually matter) and ATL headers.You may have to google around for this as Microsoft tends to change their sitemap all the bloody time.Visual c++ build tools 2022 or Visual Studio 2022 (Community Edition) You can disable samples and documentation if you want.

The vortex how to#

If you have trouble refer to How to add Python to PATH variable in Windows.

Make sure to have it added to PATH, otherwise defaults are fine.

Download installer (64-bit) from and run installer.

At the time of writing versions 3.7-3.10 are known to work

Required for one of the build tools ( node-gyp).

Verify that Git has installed successfully byb running git -version in your cmd or terminal.

Verify that Yarn has installed successfully by running yarn -version in your cmd or terminal.

Verify that Node has installed successfully by running node -version in your cmd or terminal.

Version should not matter, the latest LTS version should be fine.

Download installer from and run the installer.

If any of the download links is no longer valid, try google or a search engine of your choice.

Before you can build vortex you need to download and install a couple of dependencies.

The dependencies are not installed headless so you have to click through the dialogs but it's only guaranteed to work if you keep the defaults.

This script will try to download and install all dependencies, then check out and build vortex.

In the dialog that shows up, select a build directory (should be a clean/new one).

Download bootstrap.ps1 and run as a powershell script.

To build from source you have two choices.