Answers.Body: <p>you also need bash, it MIGHT be doable with cygwin (<a href="https://www.cygwin.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.cygwin.com/</a>), but I think it would be a considerable amount of pain.</p>
  
  <p>The least pain imo would be: install Virtualbox, install Ubuntu on it and then follow <a href="https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/635/how-do-i-set-up-dev-environment-with-buildkit">How do I set up dev environment with buildkit?</a></p>
  
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Answers.Text: Nice one :-) But I guess the objective is not really met if I tell Windows to pretend it is Ubuntu :-)
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Answers.Text: well, he did ask for the least amount of pain and he did mention a VM. buildkit needs bash. You can easily run CiviCRM on windows, but not buildkit.
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Answers.Body: <p>Start with WAMP:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.wampserver.com/en/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wampserver.com/en/</a></p>
  
  <p>Windows, Apache, mySQL, PHP</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>I expect the WAMP stuff would be pretty straightforward as Kalanh suggests. But doing a buildkit might throw up some issues...I already get some issues on my Ubuntu machine, let alone Windows :-)</p>
  
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Body: <p>Wondering how to set up a dev environment with buildkit on Windows with the least amount of pain. Is there a shortcut like a prepackaged virtual machine image?</p>
  
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Title: What's the quickest way to set up a developer environment on windows?
ThreadText: # What's the quickest way to set up a developer environment on windows?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-11-27)
  
  Wondering how to set up a dev environment with buildkit on Windows with the least amount of pain. Is there a shortcut like a prepackaged virtual machine image?
  
  **Tags:** civicrm-buildkit
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-11-27. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  you also need bash, it MIGHT be doable with cygwin (<https://www.cygwin.com/>), but I think it would be a considerable amount of pain.
  
  The least pain imo would be: install Virtualbox, install Ubuntu on it and then follow [How do I set up dev environment with buildkit?](https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/635/how-do-i-set-up-dev-environment-with-buildkit)
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: Nice one :-) But I guess the objective is not really met if I tell Windows to pretend it is Ubuntu :-)  
  > **username_1**: well, he did ask for the least amount of pain and he did mention a VM. buildkit needs bash. You can easily run CiviCRM on windows, but not buildkit.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2015-11-27. Score: 2
  
  Start with WAMP:
  
  <http://www.wampserver.com/en/>
  
  Windows, Apache, mySQL, PHP
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2015-11-28. Score: 1
  
  I expect the WAMP stuff would be pretty straightforward as Kalanh suggests. But doing a buildkit might throw up some issues...I already get some issues on my Ubuntu machine, let alone Windows :-)
  
  
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