Start & SDK profiles

Catalogue snapshot — development preview

SDK 2.3.0 · game pack 0.6.0 · source e616ed69d8f9f77b0f4827881c86d91e4a7d1689 Published release: sdk-v2.3.0 (immutable approved assets; this development preview is not an approved release). Source-backed inventory is not a runtime or in-game verification claim.

Choose an SDK archive, build and check a first plugin, and learn how plugins are found and loaded.

Guides

• Start your first plugin

  One path from a published SDK archive to a checked C plugin deployed on Windows.

• Guides by audience

  Curated guides grouped by audience.

• Plugins: discovery, loading and data packs

  Plugin folders, plugin.ini, discovery, loading and data packs.

• Framework plan: sco-core as the heart, sc-offline on the SDK

  How the runtime, plugin system, services and SDK sit under each product.

SDK profiles

Archives published in sdk-v2.3.0. Each card links to its guide and to the checksum steps on the home page.

• core

  sco-sdk-core-2.3.0.zip

  2.3.0 Standalone

  The game-neutral plugin SDK: the sco_api ABI, the host services, the C, C++, C# and Lua layers, examples and tools.

  Start a pluginVerify checksum

• game-sc

  sco-sdk-game-sc-0.6.0.zip

  0.6.0 Requires core

  The optional Star Citizen extension: the game pack's service tables and events, DataCore, their C++ and C# wrappers, game examples and docs.

  Archive compositionVerify checksum

• legacy

  sco-sdk-2.3.0.zip

  2.3.0 Includes core, game-sc

  Everything in one zip, as sdk-v1.1.0 shipped.

  Start a pluginVerify checksum

• core-source

  sco-sdk-core-source-2.3.0.zip

  2.3.0 Standalone

  Kernel source-development archive: host/runtime, native and Lua loaders, required vendored code, CMake, tools and synthetic tests.

  Build the kernel source kitVerify checksum

• host-source-sc

  sco-sdk-host-source-sc-2.3.0.zip

  2.3.0 Includes core-source

  Standalone Star Citizen host source kit in repository layout: neutral kernel plus complete game implementation, DataCore, vendored build dependencies, headers and synthetic tests.

  Host-source guideVerify checksum