1# Installation on Windows 2 3This documentation describes how to set up a workspace for trying to compile sdformat on Windows. 4 5## Supported compilers 6 7At this moment, compilation has been tested on Windows 7 and 8.1 and is supported 8when using Visual Studio 2013. Patches for other versions are welcome. 9 10## Installation 11 12Totally experimental, using pre-compiled binaries in a local workspace. To 13make things easier, use a MinGW shell for your editing work, and only use the 14Windows `cmd` for configuring and building. 15 161. Make a directory to work in, e.g.: 17 18 mkdir sdformat-ws 19 cd sdformat-ws 20 211. Unzip it in sdformat-ws. 22 231. Clone sdformat 24 25 hg clone https://bitbucket.org/osrf/sdformat 26 271. Load your compiler setup, e.g. (note that we are asking for the 64-bit toolchain here): 28 29 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86_amd64 30 311. Configure and build sdformat: 32 33 cd sdformat 34 mkdir build 35 cd build 36 ..\configure 37 nmake 38 nmake install 39 40 You should now have an installation of sdformat in sdformat-ws/sdformat/build/install/Release. 41 42 Once this all works (which it does with tender love and care): you should now have an installation of sdformat in sdformat-ws/sdformat/build/install/Release. 43