In this article we will demonstrate how we set up a portable Clojure development environment on a Windows machine. The main purpose was to be able to create a pleasant working environment for programming in Clojure on any decently powerful Windows-powered computer.

Getting a Windows Package Manager

Windows lacks a built-in package manager that is usable from the command line (in the style of Linux’s apt or dnf). There are several tools that you can install to fill this gap. Most prominent are Chocolatey and scoop.

We will go with scoop as its installation is less invasive and its usage is designed with developers in mind.