You seen this? That's a 100% step-by-step click-this-click-that install, so don't be put off by the length of it, you'll find when you start to follow the guide that you probably only need like 10% of it... But the other 90 is there just in case ;) You DON'T wanna use the RC.. It's older than dirt... It's a long story, but in short, the release candidate was discarded and C::B is intentionally stuck in perpetual beta. You need the nightly build (link is on wiki). (I wish they'd say something about that on their front page!) Don't be put off, the nightly builds are far more stable and complete than the RC ever was... If there was a version, it'd be like 1.7 by now or something ;) You do need to configure it to use make.bat to compile. From the wiki above: It looks like a lot, but it's only because I've been very detailed. You'll find that the above procedure is like 5 seconds work :)