Program to open?

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darkman5001
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Program to open?

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I see alot of open source programs on here and Github. How do you run these programs? They don't have .exe files.
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You typically have to compile/build the source code to get the binaries with items from GitHub ... Some do provide binaries, most do not.
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For me, it usually says what language it's using on the main github page.. For some reason I like c#... Not saying it's batter or anything, just what I've had the most experience with..

So I have visual studio installed. I had it load everything for c#.. pretty big, need lots of hard drive space..

Since I have visual studio installed I download everything by clicking code and then download source.. Once that's done I unzip it and then double slick on the .sln file(solution file) and it usually loads it right up.. If I'm super lucky when i click build it builds it first try, usually I have errors because of missing things, sometimes I don't have a library installed, etc.. But that's how I get it started..

You can do the same thing for c or c++, etc as far as I know.. I have done a few c++ programs the same say from github..
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If you look on the right side of the page there will be a "Releases" section.
Sometimes that will just say "No releases published," in which case you'll need to compile the software yourself.

But often there will be a link to a page that has a description of the release and (at the bottom) an "assets" section that where you can download the .exe file, or a .zip file that contains the .exe and some DLLs.
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