Hi there,
Could you clarify if you want to just run the DPU or build your own custom overlay? You don’t need to rebuild anything if you just want to use the dpu.bit shipped with dpu-pynq, just run pip3 install pynq-dpu --no-build-isolation and you’ll have it on your board (that’s running a PYNQ image).
For rebuilding, yes, you will need a Linux machine or a VM. Yes you would install XRT in Linux/Ubuntu, I’m not sure if it’s available on Windows.
Thanks
Shawn