Building PocketKnife - richwag/pocketknife GitHub Wiki

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2010
• WTL80(http://sourceforge.net/projects/wtl/files/latest/download) Make sure to add the location for WTL to your include path.

Steps to Build

1. Run Visual Studio 2010
2. Open PocketKnife.sln solution
3. Choose your build target (Win32 or x64). This is important. Since PocketKnife is a context menu extension, you must use the correct version for your operating system.
4. Build the solution.

Using it.

1. Copy the Pocketknife.dll to a directory not in your project.
2. Open a command prompt (with administrative privileges) and type regsvr32 -s pocketknife.dll
3. That's it. Right click on a folder in the Windows explorer and you should see the context menu options.