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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/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/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 the "Debug" button to build the GUI from source.
- Copy GUI/Resources/Bitfiles/rhd2000.bit to the Debug/bin folder created by Visual Studio
Building the plugins
- The GUI must be compiled prior to the plugins, as the plugin build process needs the open-ephys.lib file created by doing so in its default directory.
- Open the VS solution file Builds\Visualstudio2013\Plugins\Plugins.sln
- Select the appropiate architecture and release mode that matches the one the GUI was built with.
- Either build the complete solution to generate all plugins or build specific projects to compile just specific ones.
Now you can both use the GUI and make changes to the source code. We recommend reading through the developer documentation before doing so.
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