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authorJose <jose@zeroc.com>2015-08-04 16:12:39 +0200
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## Build Requirements for WinRT
+### Operating Systems and Compilers
+
Ice was extensively tested using the operating systems and compiler versions
listed for our [supported platforms][2].
-## Building Ice
+### Third-Party Libraries
+
+Building Ice for WinRT requires the mcpp pakage:
+
+ - [mcpp][6] 2.7.2 (with patches)
-> *To build Ice for WinRT you first need to build Ice for Windows. The build of
-Ice for Windows is necessary to create the Slice translators that we need to
-build Ice for WinRT.*
+You do not need to build this package yourself, as ZeroC supplies
+[Nuget][7] packages for all these third party dependencies.
+
+The Ice build system for Windows downloads and installs Nuget and these
+Nuget packages when you build Ice for C++. The third-party packages
+are installed in the ``ice/cpp/third-party-packages`` folder.
+
+## Building Ice
Open a command prompt that is configured for your target architecture. For
example, Visual Studio gives you several alternatives: