Setting up the development environment on Windows

I found these instructions on the PhoneGap wiki very useful for setting up my RapidFTR development environment:

Setting up Blackberry environment (Ignore all steps relating to PhoneGap, as we’re not using it.)

We are building against Blackberry JRE 4.6.1, so select the relevant component pack when following the instructions.

These instructions should be good for both Win XP and Win 7 systems. And presumably Vista. Used most recently on Windows 7 64-bit. As per instructions, install 32-bit versions of everything, including Eclipse.

Git

You’ll also need to install Git (obviously!) msysgit seems pretty good for Windows.