1The Steps to Build Git with VS2015 or VS2017 from the command line. 2 31. Install the "vcpkg" open source package manager and build essential 4 third-party libraries. The steps for this have been captured in a 5 set of convenience scripts. These can be run from a stock Command 6 Prompt or from an SDK bash window: 7 8 $ cd <repo_root> 9 $ ./compat/vcbuild/vcpkg_install.bat 10 11 The vcpkg tools and all of the third-party sources will be installed 12 in this folder: 13 <repo_root>/compat/vcbuild/vcpkg/ 14 15 A file will be created with a set of Makefile macros pointing to a 16 unified "include", "lib", and "bin" directory (release and debug) for 17 all of the required packages. This file will be included by the main 18 Makefile: 19 <repo_root>/compat/vcbuild/MSVC-DEFS-GEN 20 212. OPTIONALLY copy the third-party *.dll and *.pdb files into the repo 22 root to make it easier to run and debug git.exe without having to 23 manipulate your PATH. This is especially true for debug sessions in 24 Visual Studio. 25 26 Use ONE of the following forms which should match how you want to 27 compile git.exe. 28 29 $ ./compat/vcbuild/vcpkg_copy_packages.bat debug 30 $ ./compat/vcbuild/vcpkg_copy_packages.bat release 31 323. Build git using MSVC from an SDK bash window using one of the 33 following commands: 34 35 $ make MSVC=1 36 $ make MSVC=1 DEBUG=1 37 38================================================================ 39 40The Steps of Build Git with VS2008 41 421. You need the build environment, which contains the Git dependencies 43 to be able to compile, link and run Git with MSVC. 44 45 You can either use the binary repository: 46 47 WWW: http://repo.or.cz/w/msvcgit.git 48 Git: git clone git://repo.or.cz/msvcgit.git 49 Zip: http://repo.or.cz/w/msvcgit.git?a=snapshot;h=master;sf=zip 50 51 and call the setup_32bit_env.cmd batch script before compiling Git, 52 (see repo/package README for details), or the source repository: 53 54 WWW: http://repo.or.cz/w/gitbuild.git 55 Git: git clone git://repo.or.cz/gitbuild.git 56 Zip: (None, as it's a project with submodules) 57 58 and build the support libs as instructed in that repo/package. 59 602. Ensure you have the msysgit environment in your path, so you have 61 GNU Make, bash and perl available. 62 63 WWW: http://repo.or.cz/w/msysgit.git 64 Git: git clone git://repo.or.cz/msysgit.git 65 Zip: http://repo.or.cz/w/msysgit.git?a=snapshot;h=master;sf=zip 66 67 This environment is also needed when you use the resulting 68 executables, since Git might need to run scripts which are part of 69 the git operations. 70 713. Inside Git's directory run the command: 72 make command-list.h 73 to generate the command-list.h file needed to compile git. 74 754. Then either build Git with the GNU Make Makefile in the Git projects 76 root 77 make MSVC=1 78 or generate Visual Studio solution/projects (.sln/.vcproj) with the 79 command 80 perl contrib/buildsystems/generate -g Vcproj 81 and open and build the solution with the IDE 82 devenv git.sln /useenv 83 or build with the IDE build engine directly from the command line 84 devenv git.sln /useenv /build "Release|Win32" 85 The /useenv option is required, so Visual Studio picks up the 86 environment variables for the support libraries required to build 87 Git, which you set up in step 1. 88 89Done!