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+Building VW on Windows -- only 32 bit right now; 64 bit to come
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+8/14/2012, Chris Quirk <chrisq@microsoft.com>
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+You need Visual Studio 2010
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+(1) Install boost 1.50 from boostpro (only 32bit, unfortunately).
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+  http://boostpro.com/download/boost_1_50_setup.exe
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+(2) Pick a base directory for sources -- I'll use c:\src\vw
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+(3) Download zlib from here:
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+  http://zlib.net/zlib127.zip
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+(4) Unzip to %ROOT% -- on my machine, this lands in c:\src\vw\zlib-1.2.7.
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+  (This must have the correct relative
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+(5) Build zlib
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+    (a) Start a new CMD window
+    (b) Run "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat" to set build variables
+    (c) Go to the %ROOT%\zlib-1.2.7 directory (for me, c:\src\vw\zlib-1.2.5)
+    (d) Run "nmake /f win32\Makefile.msc"
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+(6) Get a copy of VW in %ROOT%. I ran "cd \src\vw" and "git clone http
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+    (a) Change to root (for me, "cd \src\vw")
+    (b) "git clone https://github.com/chrisquirk/vowpal_wabbit.git"
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+(7) Open %ROOT%\vowpal_wabbit\vowpalwabbit\vw.sln in Visual Studio 2010 and hit Build.
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+(8) Build. Binaries will be in one of these two directories, based on whether you built DEBUG or RELEASE bits.
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+  %ROOT%\vowpal_wabbit\vowpalwabbit\Debug\vw.exe
+  %ROOT%\vowpal_wabbit\vowpalwabbit\Release\vw.exe
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