Visual Studio toolset setup

For building Microsoft GDK projects, you can set up Visual Studio 2022 (which can build v142, v143 and Clang platform toolset VC++ projects) or Visual Studio 2019 (16.11) (which can build v142 and Clang platform toolset VC++ projects). You can also use either a full Visual Studio install or Build Tools for Visual Studio. Be sure to install the following components.

Visual Studio 2022

Full Visual Studio Install for VS 2022

Workload	Component ID (for command line install)
Game Development with C++	Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeGame
Required Component: Windows 11 SDK (10.0.22000.0) or later	Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows11SDK.22000
Optional Component: MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ x64/x86 build tools	Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.VC.Tools.142.x86.x64
Optional Component: C++ Clang tools for Windows	Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.NativeDesktop.Llvm.Clang
Optional: Desktop development with C++	Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop

Build Tools Visual Studio for VS 2022

Workload	Component ID (for command line install)
Desktop development with C++	Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop
Required Component: Windows 11 SDK (10.0.22000.0) or later	Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows11SDK.22000
Required Component: MSVC v143 - VS 2022 C++ x64/x86 build tools	Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.x86.x64
Optional Component: MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ x64/x86 build tools	Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.VC.Tools.142.x86.x64
Optional Component: C++ Clang tools for Windows	Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.NativeDesktop.Llvm.Clang

Visual Studio 2019

Full Visual Studio Install for VS 2019

Workload	Component ID (for command line install)
Game Development with C++	Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeGame
Required Component: Windows 11 SDK (10.0.22000.0) or later	Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows11SDK.22000
Optional Component: C++ Clang-cl for Windows C++ Clang-cl for v142 build tools (x64/x86)	Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.NativeDesktop.Llvm.Clang
Optional: Desktop development with C++	Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop

Build Tools Visual Studio for VS 2019

Workload	Component ID (for command line install)
Desktop development with C++	Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop
Required Component: Windows 11 SDK (10.0.22000.0) or later	Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Windows11SDK.22000
Required Component: MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ x64/x86 build tools (Latest)	Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.Tools.x86.x64
Optional Component: C++ Clang-cl for Windows C++ Clang-cl for v142 build tools (x64/x86)	Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.NativeDesktop.Llvm.Clang

GDK and Game Engines Integration

Steam porting guide

Core Features

Console Features

Game Principles

Visual Studio 2022

Full Visual Studio Install for VS 2022

Build Tools Visual Studio for VS 2022

Visual Studio 2019

Full Visual Studio Install for VS 2019

Build Tools Visual Studio for VS 2019

​Visual Studio 2022

​Full Visual Studio Install for VS 2022

​Build Tools Visual Studio for VS 2022

​Visual Studio 2019

​Full Visual Studio Install for VS 2019

​Build Tools Visual Studio for VS 2019

Visual Studio 2022

Full Visual Studio Install for VS 2022

Build Tools Visual Studio for VS 2022

Visual Studio 2019

Full Visual Studio Install for VS 2019

Build Tools Visual Studio for VS 2019