Unable to get .sln file

[Aiyke]

(I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this, but whatever)

I got the Source 2013 SDK from Valve's GitHub but I can't get the project files. There are two .bat files but running them doesn't seem to do anything. I'm specifically looking for a .sln file.

[Spirrwell]

Those batch files are meant to generate the sln and project files using Valve's VPC (Valve Project Creator) scripts.

VPC relies on some registry values that are set when you install older versions of Visual Studio. Specifically Visual Studio 2013. So install Visual Studio 2013.

There are other ways out there to workaround this, and there are even community forks that support newer versions of VS. But for simplicity, you can just install Visual Studio 2013.

[Aiyke]

Originally posted by Spirrwell:

you can just install Visual Studio 2013.

Thanks for the quick reply!
I'm having a lot of trouble installing VS2013 community edition, so I'll check out those other versions.