Before you start configuring your Windows build system, be aware of our tested configurations: Memory: You will need at least 2GB RAM, 4GB strongly recommended. CPU: Multiple CPUs are strongly recommended. A build can take over an hour. Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition. Ensure you can build a stock viewer-development try as described in the SL wiki. Before asking for any help compiling Firestorm, make sure you can build the Second Life viewer first. If you try and skip this step, you may receive much less help. http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Visual_Studio_2013_Viewer_Builds If you want to use licensed FMOD or KDU build libraries (they are optional) you have to provision these yourself. If you're licensing these with Phoenix/Firestorm, ask for the libraries for fmod and kdu. Put them into: c:\cygwin\opt\firestorm If you're a community builder, you'll need to build these libraries yourself, then change your autobuild.xml file to point to your own versions, or create a different autobuild.xml with your customizations, and use this with autobuild instead of our default autobuild.xml There are some examples of how to build FMOD on the LL Wiki and opensource-dev mailing list. We've created a non-KDU build target to make this easier. Everywhere you see "ReleaseFS" below, use "ReleaseFS_open" instead. This will perform the same build, using OpenJpeg instead of KDU. To build Firestorm: Open a CMD shell and navigating to your firestorm code repo: autobuild build -c ReleaseFS Other build targets you may use are: ReleaseFS (includes KDU, FMOD) ReleaseFS_open (no KDU, no FMOD) RelWithDebInfoFS_open (no KDU, no FMOD) Other examples: autobuild configure -c ReleaseFS # basic configuration step, don't build, just configure autobuild configure -c ReleaseFS -- --clean # clean the output area first, then configure autobuild configure -c ReleaseFS -- --chan Private-Yourname # configure with a custom channel autobuild build -c ReleaseFS --no-configure # default quick rebuild If you want to set custom configuration, do this in the configure step separately from build, then run "autobuild build -c ReleaseFS --no-configure" as a secondary step. If you want to build the 64bit version, add the parameter -A 64 to the autobuild commands, e.g.: autobuild configure -A 64 -c ReleaseFS autobuild build -A 64 -c ReleaseFS --no-configure Logs: Look for logs in build-vc150-32/logs for 32bit builds and build-vc150-64/logs for 64bit Output: Look for output in build-vc150-32/newview/Release for 32bit builds and build-vc150-64/newview/Release for 64bit