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  • install Windows Terminal from Windows Store
  • install WSL with Ubuntu 22.04 lTS
  • start ubuntu terminal
  • sudo apt install git
  • set git to globally suppress auto-crlf, and also set your name and email address in the config
  • create a new SSH key
  • start ssh-agent
  • install visual studio 2022
  • start windows cmd terminal
  • type where python to find the monumentally inconvenient python helper
  • C: and D: are at /mnt/c/ and /mnt/d/
  • in the ubuntu terminal sudo rm /mnt/c/path/to/python
  • in the ubuntu terminal sudo rm /mnt/c/path/to/python3
  • install miniconda, with the Python 3.10 option. select the "don't add to PATH" option.
  • In Windows terminal, create three new defaults, with names and start up commands as follos
  • conda Command Line: %windir%\System32\cmd.exe "/K" C:\path\to\miniconda3\Scripts\activate.bat C:\path\to\miniconda3
  • start a conda terminal, verify where python points into conda, and if you type cl it's unknown
  • vs2022 Command Line: cmd.exe /k "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat" -arch=x64 -host_arch=x64
  • start a vs2022 terminal and verify that if you type where python there is no pyton, and that cl is known
  • vs2022+conda Command Line: %windir%\System32\cmd.exe /k "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat" -arch=x64 -host_arch=x64 && C:\path\to\miniconda3\Scripts\activate.bat C:\path\to\miniconda3
  • start a new terminal with vs2022+conda, verify where python and cl are both known
  • conda create -n usd310 python=3.10
  • conda activate usd310
  • conda install git
  • set git to globally suppress auto-crlf, and also set your name and email address in the config
  • getting an ssh-agent running on windows is tricky, so for simplicity, I'm just using the ubuntu instance
  • conda install nasm
  • conda install pyopengl
  • conda install jinja2
  • pip install PySide6
  • the usd310 env is now ready to go, and you can use it in either the conda shell or the vs2022+conda shell
  • note that cmake 3.24 will be available from the vs2022 installation so it doesn't need to be separately installed.
  • USD dev is vs2022 compatible. main is not yet compatible.
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