Compiling gzdoom for dummies

[Apeirogon]

Is this instruction
https://zdoom.org/wiki/Compile_ZDoom_on_Windows
still actual for compiling gzdom?
Because it speaks of zdoom, not gzdoom, and visual c++ from 2015 years, and link to downloads it lead to visual c++ from 2017 years.

[Graf Zahl]

GZDoom compiles with Visual C++ 2015 and 2017. But you'll have problems finding the 2015 version these days because it has long been replaced with 2017 by Microsoft.

[Apeirogon]

Ummm.....what component I need to install?
Because I get lost what to choose in between net framework ASP .NET, VSTO, office for visual studio, VC ++ 2017 15.7 v14.14, etc.

[_mental_]

Desktop development with C++ should be enough.

[Apeirogon]

I assume that to run debug in visual studio I must download fmodex.dll by myself!?
Because without it visual studio throw error " Unable to start 'path to all_build' Cant find file" while simple start of gzdoom as program run it with "sound init failed. using nosound" lines in startup window with midi only music.

Or there are way to bypass this?

[_mental_]

To debug with ALL_BUILD set as startup project you need to specify path to executable manually in project properties.
FMOD Ex was dropped since 3.0 but you should copy all .dll files from the latest release to a folder with built executable.

[Apeirogon]

Then looks like I do somthing wrong.
Because after I manage to turn on debug mode, in VS console start to shows up errors like "C:\Windows\kernel.dll, cant find or open PDB file."

But anyway, it works with some changes that I add to it, so I think this is not so important.

[Graf Zahl]

These errors are meaningless. They only tell you that you do not have debug symbols for the system DLLs.