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• Define CATALINA_HOME as a Windows System environment variable, and give it the value of the install folder for Tomcat. E.g. C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0
  • Unlike JAVA, which an environment variable named after the product to locate its install directory (JAVA_HOME), Tomcat uses an environment variable named after the servlet container component (CATALINA_HOME)
• Add '%CATALINA_HOME%\bin' to the Windows System environment variable PATH

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You can download the latest JDK from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html. *

• Pick the self-installing executable corresponding to your O/S type (32 or 64bits)

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• Note where you're installing it. Set the Windows System variable JAVA_HOME to this path.

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  • • I removed the user 'JAVA_HOME' variable to prevent the System variable from being overriden.

  Step 5) Install MySQL for windows.

  Download the self-installing exe from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#downloads *

  • The most recent 5.1.x is recommended; however, developers are also using 5.5

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  • Check the box that asks whether you want to include mysql bin directory in the PATH. The option is a checkbox towards the end of the config wizard.

  Step 6) Install Apache Ant

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  • Define ANT_HOME as a Windows System environment variable, and give it the value of the install folder for Tomcat. E.g. C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\apache-ant-1.8.4
    • Details for how to update the Windows System environment variables are include in this description of how to install Ant http://madhukaudantha.blogspot.com/2010/06/installing-ant-for-windows-7.html
  • Add '%ANT_HOME%\bin' to the Windows System environment variable PATH

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  Maven is available from http://maven.apache.org/download.html

  • Version 3.x is preferred for CloudStack
  • Maven does not have an O/S-specific installer. Thus, the .zip you download does not include an .MSI file
  • Place the unzipped download in the folder you want to run Maven from.

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  • Define MAVEN_HOME as a Windows System environment variable, and give it the value of the install folder for Tomcat. E.g. C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\apache-maven-3.0.4
  • Add '%MAVEN_HOME%\bin' to the Windows System environment variable PATH

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  Step 7) Download cloudstack-oss source

  From a Cygwin window: *

  • Create a cloudstack-oss directory, cd into it

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  • Use git clone to download the a cone of the git repo from

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  • https://github.com/apache/incubator-cloudstack
    • E.g. git clone

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  • • https://

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  • • github.

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  • • com/

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  • • apache/incubator-cloudstackImage Added

  Step 6) Edit the file cloudstack-oss/build/override/build-cloud.properties to include a tomcat_home variable:

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