Compiling MSWindows binary of Asymptote under MSVC First ensure that the asymptote documentation files and asymptote.sty are built under Linux. Copy these to the Z:\asy\asydoc directory. Ensure git is available Ensure Powershell execution policy is at least unrestricted (the default for Powershell 7): Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser unrestricted # TODO: Does unrestricted execution policy work by default? Install powershell community extensions by "Install-Module Pscx -Scope CurrentUser" (https://github.com/Pscx/Pscx) Install VSSetup extension for powershell by "Install-Module VSSetup -Scope CurrentUser" Install Visual Studio Build Tools (Select CMake build tools as part of installation) Install python3 (https://www.python.org/) Install perl (https://strawberryperl.com/) Install LLVM (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases) Install virtualenv: pip3 install virtualenv Download NSIS 3+ ZIP from https://sourceforge.net/projects/nsis/ and extract to tools-cache/nsis (Make sure tools-cache/nsis/makensis.exe is available) # TODO: check if NSIS puts makensis in PATH or not for default installation ./build-asymptote.ps1