Cosmos/Docs/Installation/DevKit.md

Prerequisites

• (Free) source code of Devkit from Cosmos on CodePlex

• (Optional) Visual Studio 2013 Community
  If you do not wish to use the integrated source control, you can use the SVN bridge instead.

• If using Visual Studio 2010 Express, you can use the SVN bridge i.e. direct download current changeset in a zip file, or one of the many TFS standalone clients available at CodePlex.

  • (Free) InnoSetup QuickStart Kit
  • This is required to build the setup kit which is used to build and install the Visual Studio integration libaries for Cosmos.
  • During install it will ask you about optional components to install. Be sure you check "Install Inno Setup Preprocessor".
  • (Free) Visual Studio 2010 SDK

Installation

• Look in the downloaded sources and run install.bat with admin privileges (Vista and upper will ask you for it), needed for install in system directories
• On end it will start retail versions of Visual Studio and you can begin with OS development.

Parameters to the install.bat

The install.bat accepts following parameters

• -USERKIT Run installer for the User Kit only. By default installer build and install Dev Kit.
• -RESETHIVE Reset Visual Studio Experimental Hive after installation.
• -NOTASK When specified installer would be run directly instead of running as the task in the Task Scheduler
• -NOCLEAN Don't clean solution before run installer.
• -NOVSLAUNCH Don't launch VS after installation.
• -IGNOREVS Ignore running VS during installation.
• -VS2015 or /VS2015 Run installer for the VS 2015.
• -VS2013 or /VS2013 Run installer for the VS 2013. This is the default.
• -VSEXPHIVE or /VSEXPHIVE Use Visual Studio Experimental Hive for installation.