Build instructions (Windows)

Prerequisites

Windows 7 or later
Visual Studio 2010 Express or Professional
- Make sure "X64 Compilers and Tools" are installed if you use the Professional edition.
Python 2.7
node.js
git

If you are using Visual Studio 2010 Express then you also need following softwares:

WDK
- Build Environments is required.
Windows 7 SDK
- Windows Headers and Visual C++ Compilers are required.

The instructions bellow are executed under cygwin, but it's not a requirement, you can also build atom-shell under Windows's console or other terminals.

The building of atom-shell is done entirely with command line scripts, so you can use any editor you like to develop atom-shell, but it also means you can not use Visual Studio for the development. Support of building with Visual Studio will come in future.

Note: Even though Visual Studio is not used for building, it's still required because we need the build toolchains it provided.

Getting the code

$ git clone https://github.com/atom/atom-shell.git

Bootstrapping

The bootstrap script will download all necessary build dependencies and create build project files. Notice that we're using ninja to build atom-shell so there is no Visual Studio project generated.

$ cd atom-shell
$ python script/bootstrap.py

Building

Build both Release and Debug targets:

$ python script/build.py

You can also only build the Debug target:

$ python script/build.py -c Debug

After building is done, you can find atom.exe under out\Debug.

Tests

$ python script/test.py

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