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- Create a GitHub account if you haven't already.
- While logged into your account, go to https://github.com/open-ephys/plugin-GUI and click the "Fork" button in the upper right. You now have your own copy of the GUI repository. Any changes you make will only affect this copy. (More info on forking here.)
- Make sure you have GitHub for Windows installed.
- Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 if you haven't already.
- Direct your browser to https://github.com/yourusername/plugin-GUI, where "yourusername" is replaced by your actual GitHub user name.
- Click the "Clone in Desktop" button.
- Run GUI/Resources/DLLs/FrontPanelUSB-DriverOnly-4.4.0.exe to install the acquisition board driver. This driver should be compatible with Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, but seems to work well on Windows 10 as well.
- In Visual Studio, select the open-ephys.sln file from the GUI/Builds/VisualStudio2013 folder.
- Hit Select Build/Build Solution (or press F6) to build the GUI from source or hit the "Debug" button to build the GUI from sourceand run.
- Copy GUI/Resources/Bitfiles/rhd2000.bit to the Debug/bin folder created by Visual Studio
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- Either of the 64bit configurations (Debug64 or Release64) must be selected. "Release|x64" will build, but then the Plugins will not. "Release64|x64" will.
- BUT, when building the Plugins, "Release64|x64" will not be available, and you will choose "Release|x64" (or "Debug|x64") instead.
- x64 architecture must me selected either from the configuration manager or the "Solution Platforms" combo box (if enabled in your workspace).
- The binaries will be placed on a different folder than their 32bit counterparts
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