Projects to build the DLL/Static Lib, and the samples, are provided for Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2003 and 2005. Users of other compilers will have to make their own projects.

Creating a DLL

1. Create a DLL project. I'll assume you know how to do this. In MSVC 7 you would create an empty project, then under Application Settings you check DLL and empty project.
2. Add the source files under the /Source directory to the project.
3. Add to "Additional Include Directories" your directory with the source files.
4. Import ws2_32.lib, or wsock32.lib if you don't have Winsock 2 installed. In MSVC 7 you can right click on the project, select configuration properties / linker / input / additional dependencies and type "ws2_32.lib" in there.
5. Set your project to use multi-threaded runtime libraries. In MSVC 7 you can right click on the project, select configuration properties / C/C++ / Code Generation / Runtime Library and change it to Multi-threaded (/MT).
6. Add _RAKNET_DLL to the Preprocessor Definitions. In VS Project Properties -> Configuration Properties -> C/C++ -> PreProcessor -> Preprocessor Definitions
7. Set the character set to "not set".In VS Project Properties -> Configuration Properties -> General-> Character Set
8. Optionally set your preprocessor directives.
9. Then hit F7 or the equivalent to build your DLL and Lib.

Creating an empty DLL project in .net 2003

Setting Multithreaded debug in .net 2003

Including ws2_32.lib in .net 2003

Game Setup

1. Copy the DLL you just created to your game in the same directory as the exe. The lib can be in any directory you want.
2. Add the .lib to your project
3. Add all header files from /Source to your project

If you want to jump right in, refer to the Basic code tutorial
For more detail, refer to Detailed Implementation

1. Add the files under the /Source directory to the project. While not all of these are strictly necessary, the ones you don't use won't hurt you.
2. Import ws2_32.lib, or wsock32.lib if you don't have Winsock 2 installed. In MSVC 7 you can right click on the project, select configuration properties / linker / input / additional dependencies and type "ws2_32.lib" in there.
3. Set your project to use multi-threaded runtime libraries. In MSVC 7 you can right click on the project, select configuration properties / C/C++ / Code Generation / Runtime Library and change it to Multi-threaded (/MT).
4. Set an additional include path to include the RakNet source (if you copied the source files to a different directory).
5. Optionally set your preprocessor directives.

Setting Multithreaded debug in .net 2003

Including ws2_32.lib in .net 2003

Index
3rd party dependencies
Introduction
System Overview
Detailed Implementation
Tutorial
Preprocessor directives