.. _win-dev:

Setting up a development environment in Windows™
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This document gathers notes to setup a development environment inside a virtual
machine or a metal one. Tested with Windows 7.

There is some work in progress, that was done initially by Paixu, for building
the windows installers from within several docker containers running linux (see
``pkg/windows/Readme.rst``.

* Install ``git``
* Install Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 https://aka.ms/vcpython27