Windows

Compiler and SDK

• Visual Studio Community 2015 or suitable equivalent(Professional, Premium or Ultimate 2015)
• Windows 10 SDK 10.0.10568.0

Install required development tools

• CMake(Version 3.1.0 or higher)
  • Add the \bin directory to your PATH.
• Python 2.7PYTHON 3 WILL NOT WORK
  • Add the executable folder to your system PATH, before cygwin.
• Mercurial
  • TortoiseHG or the commandline mercurial client
• Autobuild
  • Install via python pip e.g pip install "hg+https://bitbucket.org/alchemyviewer/autobuild-alchemy"
• CygwinDO NOT INSTALL PYTHON OR CMAKE FROM CYGWIN
  • Required non default packages are unzip, curl, and p7zip
  • Add the cygwin\bin or cygwin64\bin directory to the very end of your PATH.

Install optional development tools

• NSIS Unicode
  • Make sure to download the Unicode version and not ANSI