The instructions on this page reference specific versions of numerous tools and dependencies. The versions referenced on this page are known to work. Other versions may work. Where information is available on the suitability (or otherwise) of alternative versions it is provided. All installations use default settings unless explicitly noted otherwise. Non-default settings in italics are provided for completeness but are believed not to impact on the success of the build process. Non-default settings in standard type may, or may not, impact the success of the build process.    

Hardware

 Known working configurations include:  

  1. VMware virtual machine  

    • 60GB HDD  

    • 2 processors  

    • 2GB RAM  

    • No USB  

    • No sound  

    • Bridged networking  

  2. Others TBD    

Operating System

Known working configurations include:  

  1. Windows 10

    • Static IP address  

    • 1600x1200 screen resolution  

    • UTC timezone  

    • Install VMware Tools  

    • Apply all updates  

  2. Others TBD    

Build tools

  1. Git for windows (http://git-scm.com/) 2.24.0.windows.2
  2. Mladen's Custom Microsoft Compiler Toolkit Compilation
    You can either download a binary distribution of CMSC from github or build one from source using the following steps  

    • Checkout https://github.com/mturk/cmsc (I used 132baba36d88279e7a9950e7e5e8456ce757b78a, latest tag should also be fine)

    • Download (sha256: 3d2f97178e72cabe0a972b14c4d0aae80f7ed99ec73be9970cc95f42a31bfdb6) and install the Windows Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK
      Note: This isn't the official Microsoft download. It appears it is only available via MSDN subscription at the moment. The hash matches the version from MSDN.
      • no documentation
      • No samples
    • Download and install the Windows 7 SDK
      • no documentation  
      • No samples  
      • Complete set of developer tools  
    • Download and install the Windows DDK 7.1.0
      • Build environments  
      • Tools  

    • Compile as per <cmsc-root>/tools/README.txt  

    • Install Perl as per <cmsc-root>/tools/README.txt  

  3. 7-Zip 19.00 64-bit  
  4. Adopt OpenJDK jdk8u242-b08 64-bit   


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