Have you struggled with add-on development in Visual Studio 2022?
Incorporating the Development Kit alongside Visual Studio 2022 requires a preliminary understanding of the underlying toolsets and configurations. This article provides a helpful workaround for getting started.
Both Archicad 25 and Archicad 26 were built with the v142 toolset. Therefore, add-ons should be built with this specific version as well. This means that a manual installation of the v142 toolset is needed before you start building Archicad add-ons with VS2022, given that Visual Studio 2022 defaults to v143.
To manually install the v142 toolset, follow these steps:
- Access the "Tools" menu within the Visual Studio interface.
- Select the "Get tools and Features" option.
- Within the "Individual components", check the "MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ x64/x86 build tools (v14.29-16.11)".
- Click the "Modify" option to start the installation.
- Specify the preferred toolset for the "cmake" project generator. You can do this by calling cmake with the following parameters: cmake -T v142.
For more community discussion about this topic, please check out our previous forum post here.
