TODO: add link on how to access the linaro machine

Install Visual Studio Build Tools

This is the command line portion of visual studio, download it from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/ . (“Tools for Visual Studio 2019” → “Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019”)

The following components need to be selected from “Individual Components” during the installation

• MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ x64/x86 build tools (latest)

• MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ ARM64 build tools (latest)

• C++ ATL for latest v142 build tools (ARM64)

• Windows 10 SDK

  • Versions 18362 and 19041 are known to work

Install Python

Install python 3.9.x ( 32-bit ) from the python release page. Earlier or later versions of python might also work without issues.

Note: If Python is not added by default to environment variable PATH, please go to “System Properties” -> “Environment Variables” and add the path

Install and setup Buildbot

Buildbot can be installed in any location but it is preferable to install in C:\ to avoid hitting the maximum path limit on windows.

# Create Directory for buildbot installation
mkdir C:\Workspace
cd C:\Workspace

# Create virtual venv
python -m venv venv

# Activate venv
.\venv\Scripts\activate

# Install buildbot-worker in virtual env
python -m pip install pypiwin32 buildbot-worker

Now create a worker using the following command

buildbot-worker create-worker buildarea buildbot.python.org:9020 linaro-win-arm64 <PASSWORD> 

Edit following files to add admin email address and host information

C:\Workspace\buildarea\info\admin

<waiting for mailing list allocation>

C:\Workspace\buildarea\info\host

Microsoft Surface X Pro; RAM 16GB
 
OS: Windows 10 Pro (ARM64)