View source for OTB development on Windows

We had a wiki page [[OTB development on Windows With Eclipse ]] to build older version of OTB with Eclipse, mxe, gcc, mingw. You could try same procedure with newer versions.
Making same tutorial to work with last OTB release can be done but one has to jump through some hoops.

So.. if that scares you, then use otb with msvc2015. This is tested on a daily basis on Windows 7 & 8.1 VM.

All you have to have is MSVC2015, OTB xdk, and tools archive for windows.

== Here is list of steps you can follow: ==

install msvc2015. Select custom installation and make sure you install c++ compiler

*  Download tools archive: https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org//packages/xdk/Tools.zip
** unzip it to c:/Tools/. (beware of zip file extract the file to c:/Tools/Tools)

*  Download 64bit xdk from here: https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org//packages/xdk/OTB-5.9/OTB-5.9.0-xdk-win64.zip
** unzip them to c:/dashboard/otb/xdk/OTB-5.9.0-xdk-win64 .
** beware of zip file extraction as above. Confirm that c:/dashboard/otb/xdk/OTB-5.9.0-xdk-win64/ directory has bin, lib, include etc.. rather than OTB-5.9.0-xdk-win64

== Optional ==


* install clink for cmd.exe ( https://mridgers.github.io/clink/ )

* download and install python 2.7 to C:\Python27_x64  or C:\Python27_x86

== Building OTB with MSVC ==
*  open cmd.exe and run below code snippets

=== Setup environment ===
<pre>
  set TOOLS_DIR=C:\Tools
  set COMPILER_ARCH=x64
  set SYSPATH=C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows
  set PATH=%SYSPATH%
  set PATH=%PATH%;%TOOLS_DIR%\CMake-3.5.2\bin
  set PATH=%PATH%;%TOOLS_DIR%\patch-2.5.9-7\bin
  set PATH=%PATH%;%TOOLS_DIR%\wget-1.11.4-1\bin
  set PATH=%PATH%;%TOOLS_DIR%\Git-2.9.0\bin
  set PATH=%PATH%;%TOOLS_DIR%\ninja
  set PATH=%PATH%;%TOOLS_DIR%\jom\bin
  set PATH=%PATH%;%TOOLS_DIR%\7zip-16.02
  set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Tools\swigwin-3.0.10
  set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Python27_%COMPILER_ARCH%;C:\Python27_%COMPILER_ARCH%\Scripts

  call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" %COMPILER_ARCH%
</pre>

=== Configure & Build OTB ===
<pre>
   cd c:/dashboard/otb
   git clone --branch=develop https://git.orfeo-toolbox.org/git/otb.git src

  set CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=c:/dashboard/otb/xdk/OTB-5.9.0-xdk-win64
  set PATH=%PATH%;c:\dashboard\otb\xdk\OTB-5.9.0-xdk-win64\bin
  cmake ..\src -GNinja
  ninja
</pre>