3 Windows development-box provisioning scripts.
5 `setup-windows.bat` takes a fresh Windows install to a working C++ / native
6 development environment: editors and shells, Python, the Visual Studio 2022
7 toolchain (including the Clang and Windows XP targeting toolsets), the Windows
8 Driver Kit, and a handful of analysis tools (Sysinternals, OpenCppCoverage,
9 BinSkim, the Windows Performance Toolkit).
15 | `setup-windows.bat` | Entry point. Runs the non-elevated, per-user half (winget installs, user `PATH` edits, global git config), then launches the elevated half and prints its log. |
16 | `setup-windows-with-uac.ps1` | The elevated half, started via UAC by the batch file. Enables `ssh-agent`, installs Visual Studio 2022 Community with the required components, the WDK, and the Windows Performance Toolkit. Can also be run directly from an Administrator prompt. |
20 1. **Edit `setup-windows.bat` first.** The global git identity near the middle of
21 the file is placeholder text:
24 git config --global user.name "PLACEHOLDER_NAME"
25 git config --global user.email "PLACEHOLDER_EMAIL"
28 Substitute your own name and email, or comment both lines out to keep your
29 identity per-repository.
31 2. Run it from a normal (non-elevated) prompt:
37 It will raise a single UAC prompt for the elevated half. Accept it — declining
38 leaves Visual Studio and the WDK uninstalled, and the script says so.
40 3. Restart your shell afterwards so the updated user `PATH` is picked up, and
41 reboot if a step reported that a restart was required.
45 - The elevated half writes a transcript to `setup-windows-uac.log` next to the
46 script; the batch file prints it when the elevated window closes. The log is
47 gitignored, as it contains local paths.
48 - Both halves are idempotent — re-running skips anything already installed.
49 - Visual Studio is installed in three labelled passes (base workload, Clang/LLVM,
50 XP toolset) so a failure identifies which component group is responsible.
51 - The scripts were extracted from a native Windows project, so the component
52 selection is tuned for that: Spectre-mitigated runtimes, the v141/XP toolset,
53 and driver-kit headers. Trim the component lists in the `.ps1` if you don't
54 need them — each group is a plain array near the top.