electron/docs/development/build-instructions-windows.md

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# Build instructions (Windows)
## Prerequisites
* Windows 7 or later
* Visual Studio 2010 Express or Profissional
* Make sure "X64 Compilers and Tools" are installed if you use the
Profissional edition
* [Python 2.7](http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/)
* [node.js](http://nodejs.org/)
* [git](http://git-scm.com)
If you are using Visual Studio 2010 __Express__ then you also need following
softwares:
* [WDK](http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11800)
* [Windows 7 SDK](http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8279)
The instructions bellow are executed under [cygwin](http://www.cygwin.com),
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
```bash
$ 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.
```bash
$ cd atom-shell
$ python script/bootstrap.py
```
## Building
Build both Release and Debug targets:
```bash
$ python script/build.py
```
You can also only build the Debug target:
```bash
$ python script/build.py -c Debug
```
After building is done, you can find `atom.exe` under `out\Debug`.
## Tests
```bash
$ python script/test.py
```