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--- en:user_advanced:installation_312 [2025/07/18 05:36] – anupama
+++ en:user_advanced:installation_312 [2026/07/20 00:56] (current) – [Check developer tools and set up environment] kjdon
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   - Open a DOS prompt to run the following scripts and commands:
   - Go into your Greenstone installation folder, ''cd C:\path\to\greenstone3''
-  - ** Visual Studio**  - edit local/gs3-devel.bat and check that the paths for the Visual Studio commands are correct.
+  - **Visual Studio**  - edit local/gs3-devel.bat and check that the paths for the Visual Studio commands are correct.
-  - ** Java **  - the binary release only comes with a JRE, compiling needs a JDK. Greenstone needs Java 8 or 11 (its untested on higher versions).
+  - **Java**  - the binary release only comes with a JRE, compiling needs a JDK. Greenstone needs Java 8 or 11 (its untested on higher versions).
       * If you have a suitable Java already installed, please edit local/gs3-setup.bat and set JAVA_HOME to the path of your Java installation.
       * If you don't have a JDK, please run get-selfcontained-jdk.bat in the ext-cli folder - this will download a JDK 11.
-  - ** Ant ** - Ant is bundled in the binary release
+  - **Ant** - Ant is bundled in the binary release
-  - ** Perl ** - Perl is also bundled in the binary release.
+  - **Perl** - Perl is also bundled in the binary release.
   - In the greenstone3 folder, run ''gs3-devel.bat'' - this will set up all the necessary environment variables needed for compiling
   - The Java Runtime (JRE) included with Greenstone 3 binaries is a 32 bit Java 8 runtime. This means that //if the Windows machine that you're recompiling the binary with the source component on is not 32 bit Java 8 too//, then you will need to do the following before compiling \\