for out-of-source builds, navigate to the build destination folder and execute cmake; passing it the path to the HTCondor sources. For example {code} REM assuming that the current directory is CONDOR_SRC -set _condor_sources=%CD% +set condorsources=%CD% mkdir c:\scratch\condor\build cd /d c:\scratch\condor\build -cmake CMakeLists.txt -G "Visual Studio 11" %_condor_sources% +cmake CMakeLists.txt -G "Visual Studio 11" %condorsources% {endcode} For in-source just execute this {code}