From c958d2f7d76169477a4ca4b4e3a018073b2e0f55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Craig-Wood <nick@craig-wood.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:41:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Created Setting up a Windows development environment for
 rclone (markdown)

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+Tested on a fresh Windows 2016 Server VM
+
+From within an interactive powershell session:
+
+Install [chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/install)
+
+```
+Get-ExecutionPolicy # Check it doesn't say restricted
+Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
+choco
+```
+
+Install go, git and libraries needed by rclone
+
+```
+choco install git
+choco install golang
+go version
+choco install WinFSP
+choco install MinGW
+[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("CPATH", "C:\Program Files\WinFsp\inc\fuse;C:\Program Files (x86)\WinFsp\inc\fuse", "Machine")
+$gopath = go env GOPATH
+[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", $env:PATH + ";" + $gopath + "\bin", "User")
+```
+
+Logout of powershell and back in to set the environment variables
+
+Install editor and configure git
+
+```
+choco install emacs
+git config --global user.name "Your Name Goes Here"
+git config --global user.email you@example.com
+```
+
+Compile rclone with mount support
+
+```
+go get github.com/ncw/rclone
+cd .\go\src\github.com\ncw\rclone\
+go install -tags cmount -v
+rclone -V
+```