Development PC

It is recommended that PowerBuilder IDE, PowerBuilder Runtime, PowerServer Toolkit, and PowerBuilder Utilities are the same version and build.

For detailed system requirements, refer to Installation Guide for PowerBuilder IDE > System Requirements.

Note

You must have administrator privileges to run the PowerBuilder Installer and install some components.

Hardware:

  • Intel or AMD processor

    ARM and other processors are NOT supported.

Software:

Install the following

If you want to

  • Windows 11 or 10 (Version 1607 or later)

  • PowerBuilder IDE 2025

  • PowerBuilder Runtime 2025

  • PowerServer Toolkit 2025

Build, deploy, and publish the PowerServer project in PowerBuilder IDE

  • Windows 11 or 10 (Version 1607 or later), or Windows Server 2022, 2019, or 2016

  • PowerBuilder Utilities 2025 (PBAutoBuild250.exe is included in PowerBuilder Utilities)

  • PowerBuilder Runtime 2025

  • PowerServer Toolkit 2025

Build and deploy the PowerServer project using PBAutoBuild250.exe

(The PBAutoBuild250.exe tool can automate the entire build and deploy process outside PowerBuilder IDE (without needing any PowerBuilder license).)

  • Windows 11 or 10 (Version 1607 or later)

  • SnapDevelop 2025 or Visual Studio 2019/2022

    The computer must be able to connect to the NuGet site (https://www.nuget.org), in order to download the packages required for compilation.

Modify and compile the PowerServer Web APIs