Creating a Development Environment

A development environment is used to compile new software and firmware packages. The instructions might look daunting, but ultimately it is a very easy process that requires little to no experience with Qt or cross-compilers.

The steps required to create a development environments are listed here: http://wiki.openpilot.org/display/Doc/Setting+up+a+Building+and+Development+Environment

NB, these descriptions are somewhat stale, feel free to generate new wiki pages where appropriate. The Windows dev environment in particular needs updating, especially with the release of Windows 8.