This is the github repository for all the DeepSkyStacker source code.
DeepSkyStacker is 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, Martin Toeltsch, Iustin Amihaesei
The code is open source under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause License (see LICENSE).
Copyright (c) 2006-2019, Luc Coiffier Copyright (c) 2018-2023, David C. Partridge, Tony Cook, Mat Draper, Simon C. Smith, Vitali Pelenjow, Michal Schulz, Martin Toeltsch, Iustin Amihaesei
To work on the current development codebase which uses a VS solution file called DeepSkyStacker.VS2022.sln, you will need to install Visual Studio 2022 (17.5.1), Qt 6.4.0 and Qt VS Tools 2.10.1 (rev 2) for VS2022. For earlier code versions either VS2019 or VS2022 will work.
If you open DeepSkyStacker.VS2019.sln (for an earlier level) using VS2022, please do not accept VS2022's offer to upgrade the build environment the first time you open the DeepSkyStacker.VS2019.sln file.
You will also need to install Boost 1.80.0. Once you have done that, you need to create an environment variable called Boost_1_80_0 with the location of the Boost installation directory e.g.: C:\Boost_1_80_0
You will need to use Extensions/Qt VS Tools/Qt Versions to set up a named Qt Installation called:
6.4.0_msvc2019_64
pointing to the msvc2019_64 sub-directory of your Qt install (for example C:\Qt\6.4.0\msvc2019_64).
We will upgrade to Qt 6.5.0 as soon as it ships because we want the Themes support that it provides, but you'll need to keep Qt 6.4.0 around to build 5.1.0. When that happens you will also need to set up a named Qt Installation for that.
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".