The windows builder

First things first, install chocolatey.

set-executionpolicy unrestricted
iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
choco install dmd -version 2.066

download https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7/python-2.7.msi
do install
download http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.9.1/numpy-1.9.1-win32-superpack-python2.7.exe/download

etc etc same for 3.3, 3.4

Turns out, when you create a windows image from an instance, aws loses the ability to retrieve your password. So write it down!

we also need pip to install nose and nose-exclude.

3.4 apparently ships with pip. looks like 2.7.9 does too. for other versions, download get-pip at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py and run it with the target python. there should then be a pip.exe in \PythonXY\Scripts.

Install the packages we need:

\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install nose nose-exclude