COMPILING.md

Compiling OpenDTrace for Windows (user-mode components)

Requirements

• Visual Studio 2017 (or newer)
• Git for Windows
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update (or newer)

Steps

1. Install Visual Studio with the Desktop development with C++ and Universal Windows Platform development workloads. Ensure the optional Windows 10 SDK (10.0.17763.0) component is also selected.

2. Install Git for Windows.

3. Clone the repository (git clone https://github.com/microsoft/DTrace-on-Windows).

4. Execute releng\Get-ExternalTools.ps1 in PowerShell. (Right-click the script and select Run with PowerShell.)

5. Open opendtrace.sln in Visual Studio.

6. Change the target platform as needed and build the solution.