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

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.