1: Install Visual Studio. Add it to your PATH. *::Visual Studio Express (Free to anyone) https://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/ *::Visual Studio 2012. Paid. -*::: UW Madison staff can use MSDNAA: http://msdn04.e-academy.com/wiscmad_cs ; contact the CSL lab for an account if you don't have one. You'll get a .img file of the DVD. You can use 7-zip to extract the contents and install from there instead of burning a DVD or installing DVD emulation software. +*::: UW Madison staff can get it here: https://idp.cs.wisc.edu/idp/Authn/UserPassword. 1: [Optional] Start Visual Studio and Open Tools->Options under "Projects and Solutions" click on VC++ Directories and add the following to the *Executable* directories. This is not needed if you use =msconfig\set_build_env.bat= to set the PATH before you build. *::$(SolutionDir)\msconfig