---
title:  Download and build on windows
---

You will need an up to date edition of Visual Studio, Git-Bash for
windows, and Pandoc

In a Git bash command prompt, `cd` to the directory where you intend to
install the source code.

```bash
git clone --recursive git@cpal.pw:~/wallet
```

Then launch the visual studio X64 native tools command prompt.  `cd` to the
wallet directory that was just created

```DOS
winConfigure
```

If all goes well, `winConfigure.bat` will call `"%ProgramFiles%"\Git\git-bash winConfigure.sh`
to launch `winConfigure.sh` in the bash command prompt,
`winConfigure.sh` will configure the libraries to be built, then
`winConfigure.bat` will call `msbuild`, which is Microsoft’s equivalent to
`make` on steroids, `msbuild` will then build the libraries, and finally build
and launch the wallet with the unit test flag set to perform and display the
unit test.  To rebuild the wallet after you have changed something, use
Visual Studio.

To rebuild the html files after changing the markdown files, call the bash
script `mkdocs.sh`, which calls Pandoc.

If something goes wrong, and it is not obvious what went wrong, go back
to the git-bash command prompt and try `./winConfigure.sh`

Pandoc needs to be available from the git-bash command prompt to build
html documentation from the markdown documentation.  It gets called
from `mkdocs.sh`.  It normally is available if you have installed Pandoc.

Git-bash needs to be available from native tools command prompt.  If
installed, it normally is as

```DOS
 "%ProgramFiles%"\Git\git-bash
 ```