Community-Patch-DLL

This is the repository for the Civ V SDK + Vox Populi Mod

What is Vox Populi

VP is a collection of mods for Civ V with the Brave New World Expansion.

The Community Patch (CP) is the base mod. It contains bugfixes (also for multiplayer), performance improvements and many AI enhancements, but minimal gameplay changes. It can be used standalone and is the basis for many other mods.
The Community Balance Overhaul (CBO) changes and improves many aspects of the game.
City State Diplomacy, Civ4 Diplomacy Features and More Luxuries add features to the game.
EUI improves the user interface.

You can subscribe to CP on the Steam Workshop, but that version is relatively old.
One-click installers for the complete VP pack are available on the forum.
Do not mix both options!

Just clone the repo. Visual Studio solution files are included in the Expansion2 folder
You need the Visual C++ 2008 SP1 compiler to actually link the resulting game core DLL
It is possible to use a recent IDE like Visual Studio 2017 Community though, just make sure to use the correct toolset
Always install different Visual Studio editions in chronological order, eg 2008 before 2017
Significant portions of the mods are Lua / SQL files. Those can be modified without rebuilding the game core

Use Visual Studio to build the DEBUG configuration of the project (as opposed to the RELEASE config)
Place the generated dll and pdb file (from the BuildOutput folder) in the mods folder (Community Patch Core), replacing the dll there.
Start CiV and load the mod
In the Visual Studio debugger menu select "Attach to process" and pick Civilization5.exe
Start the game. In case it crashes the debugger will show you where and why.
It may be you only see an address, no code. In that case the crash is outside of the game core dll ...
However it may still be possible to learn something from the callstack!
You can also set (conditional) breakpoints in the code to inspect the value of interesting variables.