Most developers should install VS2019 - we have 2010 on a build server for building the old galil driver (until we remove it), if you need to install 2010 locally then install it before you install 2019

Instructions for Visual Studio 2010

Install SDK 7.1 -The SDK may fail if you have these installed:

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x86 Redistributable
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x64 Redistributable

If these do exist on your computer you need to uninstall them before installing the SDK.

Install:

• Visual Studio 2010 SP1
• Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Compiler Update for the Windows SDK 7.1

Note: The free version of Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2010 Express, isn't supported by the EPICS build process.

Instructions for Visual Studio 2019

Download installer (Visual Studio Community 2019 exe) from installer page https://my.visualstudio.com using your stfc email address. During install, select "Desktop development with C++" and check/enable these individual features:

• The most recent Windows 10 SDK
• C++ MFC support
• C++ ATL support

Also select .NET development and "Universal windows CRT/universal platform development" from the features

Installing a new Version of Visual Studio

If you are on a newer version of Visual Studio then you will need to upgrade various files to take this into account. Below is a list of things we needed to do when upgrading to 2017 your list may be different.

See https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/IBEX/issues/5173 for the changes that were necessary to add support for Visual Studio 2019.

Setup the environment (Only if you are going for a later version)

The visual studio compiler environment variables are set up from ...\EPICS\base\master\startup\windows.bat this calls into the visual studio variable set up. Add your version to this.

Converting Tabs to Spaces

To convert tabs to spaces inside of Visual Studio go to

Tools->Options->Text Editor->All Languages->Tabs

Change Tab to use "Insert Spaces" instead of "Keep Tabs".

Note you can also specify this per language if you wish to have different behaviour in a specific language.