In Windows systems, you have two ways to build the simulator: one if you use Visual Studio 2026 or later, and one if you prefer doing everything via the command-line. Make sure that your computer has the following dependencies:
.NET 10.0 SDK (usually installed with Visual Studio 18.0 or later)
Choose a preferred method.
Visual Studio 2026 v18.0+
Before being able to build Nitrocid, please make sure that you have at least Visual Studio 2026 version 18.0 or later that supports building projects for .NET 10.0. You can get Visual Studio here.
Once you have Visual Studio installed with at least the .NET 10.0 SDK and the .NET development workload, follow these steps:
1
Open Visual Studio
Open Visual Studio and press Clone Repository
2
Write the repository location
In the repository location field, write https://github.com/Aptivi/Nitrocid.git
3
Clone the repository
Press Clone. The clone may need to take a few minutes depending on your Internet connection.
4
Open Nitrocid's solution
Press Solution Explorer » Switch Views and double click on Nitrocid.slnx
5
Build the solution
Press F6 on your keyboard, or press Build » Build Solution to build
6
Execute Nitrocid
Navigate to the build output folder, KSBuild, and double click on the Nitrocid.exe file
Using the command-line
If you are a hardcore command-line user or if you prefer using the command-line, follow these steps to build Nitrocid right from the command line:
