Build instructions, anyone?

[macruspareto]

Hello everyone!

So I decided to build Sandboxie Plus from source but to my surprise (or shame) I couldnt find build instructions anywhere. I mean, at all ....

Not in README, not on the Git project frontpage, not in sandboxie-docs, not in the downloaded ZIP. Nowhere.

Do you have any idea how to build it - what dependencies to download? I've got VS Community 2019 and QT 5.12.12. Do I need some extras for VS ? Header files ?
I've also noticed some reference to "Windows Kits".

There's qmake_plus cmd file, but it's all messed up - the QT version numbers and relative paths are hardcoded, I had to manually change some of its contents but it still throws a bunch of "File not found" errors. Should I run it or should I import .sln to VS and build from there?

Its really crazy to sit and do all the guessing without a clear picture.

Any place on the Internet where I can see the instructions for building it?

Thanks a lot !

[isaak654]

Unfortunately there wasn't a lot of pull request activity about that, we would need more volunteers to cover this aspect.

For this reason, I made a specific "build issue" label in order to collect all build requests and replies:
https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie/issues?q=label%3A%22build+issue%22

It is clearly mentioned in the README.md file located in the root of the repository, under the entry
We recommend to check also the following labels in this repository

I understand it's not the most complete solution, but it's obviously better than nowhere.

EDIT: There is also #1089