If you have Java and ant installed on Windows, you can just run "ant" in the netbeans source directory, and it should build fine.
Another alternative is to use WSL, which is basically Ubuntu running on Windows--without a VM, and officially supported by Microsoft: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about -- Eirik From: George Brooks <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 1, 2020 4:00 PM To: NetBeans Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: Native Windows build tool? Is there a native Windows tool for building Netbeans? I've so far just used an Ubuntu 18 VM. I don't mind doing that but I'm curious. Thanks. -- George
