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| @@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ Are you a Google employee? See
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| * A 64-bit Intel machine with at least 8GB of RAM. More than 16GB is highly
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| recommended.
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| -* At least 100GB of free disk space.
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| +* At least 100GB of free disk space on an NTFS-formatted hard drive. FAT32
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| + will not work, as some of the Git packfiles are larger than 4GB.
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| * Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, see below (no other version is supported).
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| * Windows 7 or newer.
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| Add depot_tools to the start of your PATH (must be ahead of any installs of
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| -Python). Assuming you unzipped the bundle to C:\src\depot_tools:
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| -With Administrator access:
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| +Python). Assuming you unzipped the bundle to C:\src\depot_tools, open:
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| Control Panel → System and Security → System → Advanced system settings
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| -Modify the PATH system variable to include C:\src\depot_tools.
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| -Without Administrator access:
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| -Control Panel → User Accounts → User Accounts → Change my environment variables
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| +If you have Administrator access, Modify the PATH system variable and
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| +put `C:\src\depot_tools` at the front (or at least in front of any directory
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| +that might already have a copy of Python or Git).
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| -Add a PATH user variable (or modify the existing one to include):
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| -`C:\src\depot_tools`.
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| +If you don't have Administrator access, you can add a user-level PATH
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| +environment variable and put `C:\src\depot_tools` at the front, but
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| +if your system PATH has a Python in it, you will be out of luck.
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| Also, add a DEPOT_TOOLS_WIN_TOOLCHAIN system variable in the same way, and set
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| it to 0. This tells depot_tools to use your locally installed version of Visual
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