 <p>This is really poorly explained in the documentation, but actually gyp is already present if you've done an ordinary checkout of breakpad. Open a command prompt and place yourself in the root ( google-breakpad-read-only if you're going by the instructions ). Then just do: </p> <p>src\tools\gyp\gyp.bat src\client\windows\breakpad_client.gyp</p> <p>This will generate visual studio sln files for you.</p>