User:Nicky Perian/Visual Studio 10 Autobuild

Establish your programming environment

This is needed for compiling any viewer based on the LL open source code, but only needs to be done once. Obtain Visual Studio 2010 (Express is OK) Click here to download Visual C++ Express - current version is VS2010 Install Microsoft Platform & DirectX SDKs Download and install Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4 (ISO) or Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4 (Web Install) Download and install DirectX SDK (June 2010) Install other development tools UniCode NSIS(download Unicode NSIS) This is the package installer used to build Setup.exe.  Note: As of this writing the file is downloaded with an *.exec extension that needs renamed *.exe. CMake (download CMake) should be version 2.8.1  Kitware corrected a bug related to VS2010 at 2.8.1 and it came back in the current versions but, is due to be fixed in version 2.8.4. (and ensure any other versions aren't in your PATH environment variables) Cygwin (download Cygwin) When you run the cygwin setup utility make sure you have selected to install patchutils, flex, and bison (all located under "devel") which are not part of the default install. Do not install Cygwin Python. Python (download either Python.org Standard Python or ActivePython) Note: build scripts support Python 2.6, not 2.7 yet. TortoiseHg (download TortoiseHg) or (Mercurial Hg) You need to use an editor that conforms to the Coding Standard. In particular, you must not check in files with DOS line endings except in very limited circumstances; see How to avoid DOS line endings in Windows tools. Notepad++ (download Notepad++) (Optional)

Note: If the installer for a particular package does not update your PATH environment setting you will have to do this manually.