1. Open https://www.visualstudio.com/. 2. Hover the left button "Download Visual Studio". 3. Click "Community 2017". 4. Wait a couple of seconds until the download window appears. 5. Click "Save File". 6. Execute the downloaded installer "vs_Community.exe". 7. Confirm the UAC prompt by clicking "Yes". 8. Click "Continue" to accept the licensing terms. 9. Wait for the progress bar to complete. 10. In the new window, select "Desktop development with C++" and "Python development". 11. Click on "Individual Components". 12. Select "Git for Windows" in the "Code tools" list. 13. Click "Install". 14. Wait a loong time for the installer to finish. 15. Still waiting. 16. Click "Launch". 17. In the welcome screen, click "Not now, maybe later". 18. In the theme selection screen, click "Start Visual Studio". 19. Wait a second for Visual Studio to start. 20. Select "Team Explorer" in the "View" menu. 21. In the "Team Explorer", in "Local Git Repositories", click "Clone". 22. Enter "https://github.com/ddnet/ddnet" into the first line, and adjust the second path if you want to. Click "Clone". 23. Wait a bit until the repository is cloned. (A few terminals might pop up.) 24. Your screen should now look something like this. Click the arrow next to "Select Startup Item…". 25. In the submenu, click "DDNet.exe". 26. Click the button with the green arrow and "DDNet.exe", wait for DDNet to compile. 27. The client should start up, you might be greeted by a firewall message. Select "Public networks" in addition to the already selected "Private networks" and click "Allow access". 28. You should now see the typical DDNet client. Congratulations, you have successfully compiled DDNet.