Getting Started

This section sets up tools for development on Windows.

By following this guide, you should end up with a minimal setup that can be used for development. Then, you can start installing extra tools.

General Order

This guide follows these general installation order:

1. First we will install Windows requirements for setting up dotbin
2. Then we will install dotbin and set up the environment
3. Finally we will install extra software with dotbin

Sudo for Windows

This guide assumes you have Sudo for Windows installed. Currently, you must be on the Insider Dev Channel to use sudo for Windows. See https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-sudo-for-windows/

If you are not planning to switch, simply run the command as an administrator.