Development on Windows is not well supported, unfortunately. You will have a much easier time if you develop on Mac or Linux as described under Development Environment section.
Vagrant commands appear below and were tested on Windows 10 but the Vagrant environement is currently broken. Please see https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/6849
Contents:
Download and install Vagrant from https://www.vagrantup.com
Vagrant advises you to reboot but let’s install VirtualBox first.
Download and install VirtualBox from https://www.virtualbox.org
Note that we saw an error saying “Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2.8 Setup Wizard ended prematurely” but then we re-ran the installer and it seemed to work.
Download and install Git from https://git-scm.com
Launch Git Bash and run the following commands:
git config --global core.autocrlf input
Pro tip: Use Shift-Insert to paste into Git Bash.
See also https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings/
If you skip this step you are likely to see the following error when you run vagrant up.
/tmp/vagrant-shell: ./install: /usr/bin/perl^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
From Git Bash, run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse.git
From Git Bash, run the following commands:
cd dataverse
The dataverse directory you changed is the one you just cloned. Vagrant will operate on a file called Vagrantfile.
vagrant up
After a long while you hopefully will have Dataverse installed at http://localhost:8888
We have been unable to get Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to work. We tried following the steps at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 but the “Get” button was greyed out when we went to download Ubuntu.
For more discussion of Windows support for Dataverse development see our community list thread “Do you want to develop on Windows?” We would be happy to incorporate feedback from Windows developers into this page. The Writing Documentation section describes how.