This release of Shareaza must be compiled by VS2022. http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products (Previous releases was dropped)

This needs to be a Full Edition preferably Team Edition and not the Express Release.

If you want to compile to 64-bit, make sure to enable it during the install process under Add or Remove Features (Language Tools -> Visual C++ -> X64 Compilers and Tools).

If you are installing a Full Edition of Visual Studio you should by default get Windows SDK installed.

Must be August 2007 or earlier version, newer versions including current March 2008, are missing a needed file � dxtrans.h You can download August 2007 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=529f03be-1339-48c4-bd5a-8506e5acf571&displaylang=en or by using this direct link http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/3/f/33f1af6e-c61b-4f14-a0de-3e9096ed4b3a/dxsdk_aug2007.exe

Download & copy gzip.exe into your windows path eg. C:\WINDOWS\system32

I am using version 1.2.4 which you can download from http://www.gzip.org/.

On some systems, possibly related to Windows 7 or Windows 64-bit, placing gzip in system32 will not be recognized. In that case, just put it somewhere else in Visual Studio's executable path, such as under 'Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/Common7/Tools'.

from http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php.

Make sure you install the "Unicode Inno Setup QuickStart Pack" not the standard setup/install.

The "Unicode Inno Setup QuickStart Pack" incudes additional componets that are required that the standard setup does not include.

Also make sure you install Inno on your C drive. I generally install my programs on another drive but found when setting up VS2005 last time that the visual studio project file used to build shareaza used a script reference to access Inno. This script assumed that Inno was installed on C drive, so not having Inno installed on C drive caused an error in compiling. To avoid this potential problem I installed Inno on my C drive this time and had no problems.

Once all the above is in place you can compile.

Open in VS2022 the following source file \vc143\Shareaza.sln This will open the "Solution" Go into Build -> Configuration Manager and set Shareaza build config eg Configuration = Debug / Platform = Win32 or Configuration = Debug / Platform = x64. Then select "Rebuild Solution" to start to compile. At the end of a successful compile you will find a newly compiled installer in \setup\builds folder.

Note: If you try compiling an x64 build on a 32bit machine you will get the following repeated error "Project : error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error code from "Performing registration". This error occurs because you can not register 64bit DLLs on a 32bit machine! It is not advisable to compile a 64-bit build on 32-bit windows, as you cannot test what you are compiling.

Enjoy ;)