Building NetHack using the Visual Studio IDE

Prerequisite Requirements:

A copy of Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition needs to
be installed on your machine, and the Lua prerequisite source
files are required as outlined in sys/windows/Install.windows.

The nmake build Makefiles and procedures produce two executable
versions:

    a. A TTY and curses version of NetHack in nethack.exe
    b. A Windows and curses graphical version in nethackw.exe.

/---------------------------------------------\
|    Directories for a Windows NetHack build  |
\---------------------------------------------/

               (NetHack-top)
                     |
  +-----+------+-----+-------+-----------+-----------+-----~-----+------+
  |     |      |     |       |           |           |           |      |
 dat   doc  include lib     src         sys         win    submodules  util
                     |                   |           |           |
               +----------+          +------+      +----+     +----+
               |          |          |      |      |    |     |    |
               |          |          |      |      |    |     |    |
           lua-5.4.6  pdcursesmod  share windows  tty  win32 lua pdcursesmod
                                                  |
                                                  vs
                                                  |
    +----------+-------+--------+--------+-----------+-------+-----+------+
    |          |       |        |        |           |       |     |      |
 makedefs NetHack NetHackW PDCurses PDCursesGui tile2bmp tilemap tiles uudecode


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| Building And Running Using Visual Studio 2017, 2019, 2022  |
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When using Visual Studio Community Edition, load the provided solution
file within the IDE, build the solution.

The Visual Studio NetHack solution file can be found here:
    sys\windows\vs\NetHack.sln

The steps are:
    1. Launch the IDE.
    2. Open the appropriate solution file in sys\windows\vs\NetHack.sln.
    3. Select the build configuration you wish to use (Release, Debug, etc.).
    4. From the build menu, select build solution.
    5. Type F5 to start debugging.