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Help building simvars exe

ZenMusic

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Can someone please share the configuration to build an exe for the Simvars application SimvarWatcher.
I build it successfully but when it (exe) runs it immediately aborts, probably not putting the simconnect.dll in the right place.
How do I see the value of (ProjectDir)
in the Post Build there is
xcopy “$(ProjectDir)SimConnect.cfg” “.” /Y
xcopy “$(ProjectDir)…\SimConnect SDK\lib\SimConnect.dll” “.” /Y
 
In the Post-Build Event page click on the right side of the Command Line and there is a drop down menu, click on <Edit...> and click on Macros>>

that will tell you what the $(ProjectDir) macro is. I don't know to change. I just replaced the macro with a hard coded file path.

Can't help you beyond that but the working release of SimvarWatcher can be found here:

C:\MSFS SDK\Samples\SimvarWatcher\bin\x64\Release

The post build is simply copying those files into your release directory and I don't see why you couldn't do that manually.
 
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