Installing Git on Windows 8.1

Finally, to obtain this project from this project's Git repository on GitHub, the Git utility is required.  The latest Git for Windows can be obtained from their home page (which has changed since I previously described how to install Git).  Click the Download button to download the latest version.

Open the download file (Git‑1.9.4‑preview20140611) and accept the User Control Access if asked.  Click through and accept the license.  On the Select Components dialog, select additional icons if desired and click through accepting the defaults.  It's not necessary to view the release notes, so disable and click Finish.

The paths to these programs along with Qt needs to be added to Windows.  From Windows Explorer, select This PC, right-click and select Properties, Advanced system settings, and on the Advanced tab, click Environment Variables...  Under System variables, scroll down to Path and add:

;C:\mingw32\bin;C:\Qt\4.8.6\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin

Select Path, click Edit..., add the string above to the end of Variable value, and click OK (the whole way out).  This will allow the utilities git, g++ (compiler), gdb (debugger) and qmake (how it is determined where Qt is installed) to be found on the command line or by a program that is started under Windows.  The path to the CMake directory should already have been added during CMake installation.