These links helped me with setting up steemd:

https://steem.io/documentation/how-to-build/
https://steemit.com/steem/@tuck-fheman/how-to-mine-steem-in-windows
https://gist.github.com/xeroc/e1c52ce7754c945ca9b0e0e97512f597

I came across an issue where steemd would report a parser error with multiple seed nodes in the config file, so I had to delete all but one.