Windows 10 Development Environment Provisioning

The bulk of the development environment provisioning logic is in the tools\provision.ps1 PowerShell script. It is not recommended to directly invoke this script. Instead, run the tools\make-win64-dev-env.bat batch script. This provisioning script is used to prepare a clean Windows 10 64 bit operating system into one that is prepared for osquery development by downloading and installing the proper tools and dependencies.

Generating the Visual Studio 2015 solution and building the osquery binaries is done via the tools\make-win64-binaries.bat batch script.

Note: Both batch scripts above need to be run from the repo root, i.e their invocation should be exactly as they appear above. Read 'Build Process' below for more details on provisioning.

Initial Assumptions

  • git for Windows should be already installed in order to git clone the osquery repository containing the provisioning script
  • The machine is running the Windows 10 64 bit operating system with PowerShell 3.0 or later installed
  • No previous instance of Visual Studio 2015 is installed
  • The user is running the script as an Administrator with elevated privileges

Build Process

  • Open a new Command Prompt as an Administrator with elevated privileges
  • Execute the following command: git clone https://github.com/facebook/osquery
  • Change into the osquery root directory: cd osquery
  • Run the batch script to provision a Windows 10 64 bit development environment: tools\make-win64-dev-env.bat
  • Run the batch script to generate a Visual Studio 2015 solution and commence building the osquery shell, daemon, and tests: tools\make-win64-binaries.bat

Manual Method

Generating the Visual Studio 2015 Win64 Solution

  • Create the build folder: mkdir build\windows10
  • Change into the recently created build folder: cd build\windows10
  • Generate the Visual Studio 2015 solution files: cmake ..\.. -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64"
  • There should be a OSQUERY.sln in the build\windows10 folder, open this with Visual Studio 2015

Building osqueryd.exe and osqueryi.exe

  • Open the Visual Studio 2015 solution, OSQUERY.sln
  • Select Release or RelWithDebInfo as the build configuration
  • For osqueryd.exe, build the daemon project; osqueryi.exe, build the shell project

Chocolatey Packages Installed (from official sources)

  • chocolatey (if applicable)
  • 7zip.commandline
  • cmake.portable 3.6.1
  • python2 2.7.11
  • visualstudio2015community
  • thrift 0.9.3

Chocolatey Packages Installed (from private sources)

Official chocolatey sources do not provide everything we need. In order to mitigate this issue, we built our own custom Chocolatey packages with the required development libraries (and tools) required to build osquery.

  • boost-msvc14 1.59.0
  • bzip2 1.0.6
  • doxygen 1.8.11
  • gflags-dev 2.1.2
  • glog 0.3.4
  • openssl 1.0.2
  • rocksdb 4.4
  • snappy-msvc 1.1.1.8
  • thrift-dev 0.9.3
  • cpp-netlib 0.12.0
  • linenoise-ng 1.0.0
  • clang-format 3.9.0
  • zlib 1.2.8

Note: Depending on your internet connection it can take time for packages to download. A slow internet connection might cause a time-out error. If such an error occurs then increase the value of the execution-time of the choco install command.

Other Actions

  • Upgrades python2's pip package
  • Installs all the Python packages as per requirements.txt (possible issue with Vagrant from the thrift Python package)