1The Steps of Build Git with VS2008 2 31. You need the build environment, which contains the Git dependencies 4 to be able to compile, link and run Git with MSVC. 5 6 You can either use the binary repository: 7 8 WWW: http://repo.or.cz/w/msvcgit.git 9 Git: git clone git://repo.or.cz/msvcgit.git 10 Zip: http://repo.or.cz/w/msvcgit.git?a=snapshot;h=master;sf=zip 11 12 and call the setup_32bit_env.cmd batch script before compiling Git, 13 (see repo/package README for details), or the source repository: 14 15 WWW: http://repo.or.cz/w/gitbuild.git 16 Git: git clone git://repo.or.cz/gitbuild.git 17 Zip: (None, as it's a project with submodules) 18 19 and build the support libs as instructed in that repo/package. 20 212. Ensure you have the msysgit environment in your path, so you have 22 GNU Make, bash and perl available. 23 24 WWW: http://repo.or.cz/w/msysgit.git 25 Git: git clone git://repo.or.cz/msysgit.git 26 Zip: http://repo.or.cz/w/msysgit.git?a=snapshot;h=master;sf=zip 27 28 This environment is also needed when you use the resulting 29 executables, since Git might need to run scripts which are part of 30 the git operations. 31 323. Inside Git's directory run the command: 33 make common-cmds.h 34 to generate the common-cmds.h file needed to compile git. 35 364. Then either build Git with the GNU Make Makefile in the Git projects 37 root 38 make MSVC=1 39 or generate Visual Studio solution/projects (.sln/.vcproj) with the 40 command 41 perl contrib/buildsystems/generate -g Vcproj 42 and open and build the solution with the IDE 43 devenv git.sln /useenv 44 or build with the IDE build engine directly from the command line 45 devenv git.sln /useenv /build "Release|Win32" 46 The /useenv option is required, so Visual Studio picks up the 47 environment variables for the support libraries required to build 48 Git, which you set up in step 1. 49 50Done!