(Free) source code of Devloppement Kit from Cosmos on GitHub
- You must clone the repository using Git. For a detailed walkthrough, see here.
- When following the tutorial, replace OctoCat with CosmosOS and Spoon-Knife with Cosmos.
(Free) Visual Studio 2019 Community
(Free) InnoSetup QuickStart Kit
- This is required to build the setup kit which is used to build and install the Visual Studio integration libaries for Cosmos.
- During install it will ask you about optional components to install. Be sure you check "Install Inno Setup Preprocessor".
Visual Studio SDK: download here.

Look in the downloaded sources and run install-VS2019.bat with admin privileges (UAC will ask for permission), needed for install in system directories.
When the installation is complete, Visual Studio will automatically open and you may begin programming with your new, modified copy of Cosmos.

Arguments for the 'install-VS2015.bat' file

The install-VS2019.bat accepts the following parameters :

-USERKIT Run installer for the User Kit only. By default installer build and install Dev Kit.
-RESETHIVE Reset Visual Studio Experimental Hive after installation.
-NOTASK When specified installer would be run directly instead of running as the task in the Task Scheduler
-NOCLEAN Don't clean solution before run installer.
-NOVSLAUNCH Don't launch VS after installation.
-IGNOREVS Ignore running VS during installation.
-VSEXPHIVE or /VSEXPHIVE Use Visual Studio Experimental Hive for installation.

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