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DeepSkyStacker

This is the github repository for all the DeepSkyStacker source code.

DeepSkyStacker is a freeware created in 2006 by Luc Coiffier

It was open sourced in 2018 and is maintained by a small and dedicated team:

David C. Partidge, Tony Cook, Mat Draper, Simon C. Smith, Vitali Pelenjow, Michal Schulz

The code is open source under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause License (see LICENSE).

Copyright (c) 2006-2019, LucCoiffier Copyright (c) 2018-2020, David C. Partridge, Tony Cook, Mat Draper, Simon C. Smith, Vitali Pelenjow, Michal Schulz

Building DeepSkyStacker:

You will need to install Visual Studio 2022 (17.2.3), Qt 5.15.2+ and Qt VS Tools 2.8.1+ for VS2022.

You will need to use QT VS Tools Options dialog to set up two named Qt Installations:

1. Called 5.15.2x86 pointing to msvc2022 sub-directory of your Qt install
	for example C:\Qt\5.15.2\msvc2022
2. Called 5.15.2x64 pointing to the msvc2022_64 sub-directory of your Qt install
	for example C:\Qt\5.15.2\msvc2022_64

In addition you will need to set an environment variable (right-click on the "DeepSkyStacker" project in the VS solution explorer and go to Properties > Configuration Properties > Debugging > Environment) called QtInstDir set to the value C:\Qt\5.15.2\msvc2022_64 (assuming you are running on 64-bit Windows).

You will also need to install Visual Leak Detector, which the project will expect to find at C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual Leak Detector. In the Visual Leak Detector installation wizard, be sure to check "Add VLD directory to your environmental path".