ImportAdder.exe clarification

[kaithar]

It might just be me being stupid somehow, but could you clarify what/where ImportAdder.exe comes from?

The thought process that leadto this question is, approximately:

• I roughly understand what it does from looking at the patcher script, but there seems to be no code corresponding to it?
• I thought it might be a standard external tool, but the commit history suggests otherwise even without the project specific data.
• I considered that it might be auto generated by VS's default dll project (and I haven't ruled that out, actually), but does codeblocks generate something similar?
• It is, perhaps, a standard windows injection technique (something I admit I wouldn't be familiar with), but without knowing how it functions or how to update it to match any changes to the dll, it's not a reproducible artefact but is fairly critical to development.
• Resorting to the simplest solution... ask 👍

[induktio]

Yeah, this part does not contain the actual compilation steps in the repo. As far as I know, it's not a standard tool, but it uses PEfile sources modified to patch some specific OpenSMACX imports on terranx.exe binary. It might also be a question of licences if it can be incorporated in the source. Maybe that's why Scient didn't include it. The patcher is probably not a complicated program to implement but some solution needs to be found so that the build artifacts are reproducible.