builder was made to make GMEdit usable without the need of having GameMaker Studio 2 open in the background to compile projects. builder works by using your pre-existing settings made by GMS 2 to pass arguments into GMAssetCompiler and compile your project. builder was developed with faster development in mind, skipping most file generation and secondary applications being required to compile. builder even supports switching the runtime that you build your project with as well as compiling the project as it's already running! You can download a pre-packaged version of builder from here!

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1. create a folder named "builder" inside of %appdata%/AceGM/GMEdit/plugins/ on Windows, /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/AceGM/GMEdit/plugins on macOS
2. clone this repo and copy all files into "builder" folder
3. launch GMEdit and open a project
4. open the main menu and select "Run Project"
5. optional: adjust what runtime to use in the "Preferences" menu

• a "clean project" button
• more compiler customization (worker threads, verbose output, etc)
• in-editor progress bar, based on what GMAssetCompiler is doing
• support GMS 1 projects? (unlikely)

• my game compiles but doesn't open: make sure you are using the correct runtime, as the default runtime is likely to be the oldest runtime you have downloaded
• an error occurs in GMEdit but not in GMS 2: again, this is likely an issue with the default runtime that builder selects. be sure to check and make sure that the runtime builder is using is the same as in GMS 2

• YellowAfterlife for accepting PRs that help the core functionality of this plugn, answering my endless questions, submitting PRs that help improve the plugin, and providing the screenshot used in the readme
• Sidorakh for testing and supporting the plugin
• Katie for encouraging me to add macOS support to the plugin