Prerequisites Windows

Development stack require some base software that need to be installed.

Docker or podman

Platform dependencies in development are deployed through container management, so you need to install a container stack.

We currently support docker and postman.

Docker Desktop from - https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/windows-install/

• Install new version of - https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/wsl/wsl2-kernel. This will require a reboot.
• Shell out to CMD as Administrator and run the following powershell command:

wsl --set-default-version 2

• Reboot computer and continue to next step
• Load Docker Application
• NOTE DOCKER LICENSE - You are agreeing to the licence for Non-commercial Open Source Project use. OpenCTI is Open Source and the version you would be possibly contributing to enhancing is the unpaid non-commercial/non-enterprise version. If you intention is different - please consult with your organization's legal/licensing department.
• Leave Docker Desktop running

NodeJS and yarn

The platform is developed on nodejs technology, so you need to install node and the yarn package manager.

• Install NodeJS from - https://nodejs.org/download/release/v16.20.0/node-v16.20.0-x64.msi
• Select the option for installing Chocolatey on the Tools for Native Modules screen
  • Will do this install for you automatically - https://chocolatey.org/packages/visualstudio2019-workload-vctools
  • Includes Python 3.11.4

• Shell out to CMD prompt as Administrator and install/run:

  • pip3 install pywin32

• Configure Yarn (https://yarnpkg.com/getting-started/install)

• Open CMD as Administrator and run the following command:
  • corepack enable

Python runtime

For worker and connectors, a python runtime is needed. Even if you already have a python runtime installed through node installation, on windows some nodejs package will be recompiled with python and C++ runtime.

For this reason Visual Studio Build Tools is required.

• Install Visual Studio Build Tools from - https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=BuildTools
• Check off Desktop Development with C++
• Run install

Git and dev tool

• Download GIT for Windows (64-bit Setup)- https://git-scm.com/download/win

• Just use defaults on each screen

• Install your preferred IDE

• Intellij community edition - https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/
• VSCode - https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/?dv=win64