How do I build it?

[Darthagnon]

Just wondering if a specific version of Visual Studio or dependencies or something was required to build this project, as it sounds pretty cool...

[Darthagnon]

Just checked the sln project file; uses Visual Studio 2012 - anyone know how/if it can build in VS 2017?

[Darthagnon]

I've downloaded the Synaptics SDK (SynCOMAPIv1_0.zip), which contains some dependencies, and I've got the latest version of Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.Vs, but having installed the latter, and being uncertain what to do or where to put the former, the project still won't build. Does the computer need to have a Synaptics touchpad to even build the project? (Current PC has an Elan one with Windows Precision drivers) Does anyone have a built release?

[sibbl]

Hi @Darthagnon, thanks for reaching me out on any platform and writing under all issues here at Github.

First of all, it would be great to know which version you want to build. There's a C# and a CPP version, depending on your branch. Both should only require the SynCOMAPIv1_0.zip which you've mentioned. As the name already says, this is a COM module which is imported as such. Iirc no further requirements, be it software or hardware, should be necessary. However it might indeed be the case that the Visual Studio project structure has changed.

I might take a look at my backups from 3 years ago, whether there's still some binary available. I'd be pretty excited if it would work for Windows 10 at all, to be honest.

[sibbl]

Btw, the archive.org wayback machine might be helpful to get the latest binary: https://web.archive.org/web/*/syngestures.klickin-webdesign.de

[sibbl]

For backup reasons, here's also a copy of the SynCOMAPIv1_0.zip from 2013. I also got this from the Wayback Machine, see https://web.archive.org/web/20131028105456/http://www.synaptics.com/sites/default/files/SynCOMAPIv1_0.zip

[Darthagnon]

Thank you for posting that, sibbl!
V1.0 is the latest version, I'm guessing? (v0.2 beta is the only one I can see by visually browsing the wayback machine, and that comes before v1.0)
EDIT: read through the issue history to remind myself
EDIT2: I downloaded SynCOMAPIv1_0.zip from somewhere else back in the day, and found the following info which might be helpful to future readers (which I'd saved as a readme with the zip):

Downloaded from:
https://code.google.com/archive/p/aboutc/downloads?page=2

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Alternate download:

from http://download.sourcecodeprojects.com/803245/

packaged file identify id: 89821837-03fe-425c-89cb-fe7646f87b1c
download url: http://ul.to/21etwsgu
extrac password: http://www.cprogramdev.com

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To install: (from https://superuser.com/questions/1212988/installation-of-the-synaptics-sdk)

I figured it out. I just went to properties, and unblocked the .chm file. It has an explanation under Synaptics SDK>Installation>Installing the SDK

[Darthagnon]

I've got the source code and the SynCOMAPIv1_0.zip, but I can't manage to fix the broken references (see screenshot) to SYNCOMLib (I assume this is "SynCom.lib" from the zip) and SYNCTRLLib (I assume this is "SynCtrl.lib" from the zip). There is also a broken reference to "Microsoft.VisualBasic.Powerpacks.Vs", even though I installed them from here.

EDIT: I tried copying SynCom.dll and SynCtrl.dll from the zip's Bin folder to System32 and registering them with regsvr32, but no luck. Maybe it can't be build on modern Windows (I'm using Win10 v1709 x64).

I did manage to find a binary for Syngestures v1.0 somewhere, I'll upload it soon.

@sibbl I don't suppose you remember how you set up the project to use these, do you?

[Darthagnon]

I found someone mirrored SynGestures_v0.0.1.0.exe: http://cl.ly/Efnv
(NB not the latest version; latest version is v0.2 beta, according to Archive.org snapshots of syngestures.klickin-webdesign.de)

Source:
https://dexpot.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3987