majorsilence

This is a checklist of items and actions that must be performed to build/develop DeVeDe on Windows.

First there are several packages that must be installed. All packages are for x86 and not 64bit and all python packages are for version 2.6.*.

• Install Python 2.6 (make sure it is 2.6 and not 2.7 or 3.*) - http://python.org/download/
• Install Python for Win32 Extensions - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ (direct http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20214/pywin3...).
• Install GTK - make sure you get 2.16 (not 2.18) http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html. (Direct link http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.16/gtk+-bundle_2.16...).
  • Extract to any folder such as "C:\Program Files\GTK\" or on 64 bit computers to "C:\Program Files (x86)\GTK\"
  • Add the GTK bin (C:\Program Files\GTK\bin) directory to your system path. Eg. Windows XPs "Control Panel" -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables -> System Variables -> Path. Now add ";C:\Program Files\GTK\bin" to the end of the path variables (of course use the actual GTK bin directory path that is on your computer).
• Install pygobject 2.20 - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/pygobject/2.20/
• Install pycairo 1.8 - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/pycairo/1.8/
• Install PyGTK 2.16 - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/pygtk/2.16/
• Check out DeVeDe trunk from svn http://svn.majorsilence/devede/trunk - I suggest tortoisesvn (http://tortoisesvn.net/).
• From an install of devede (http://files.majorsilence.com/devede/downloads/312-4/devede3.12.4-setup.msi) copy the bin folder into the "trunk" folder. This provides the executables that DeVeDe requires to do its work.
• Double click devede.py to start devede.

Optional

ImgBurn Support

• Install ImgBurn - http://www.imgburn.com/
• ImgBurn is used when it is detected to create the ISO files. Otherwise mkisofs.exe is used and it has major problems on Vista and Windows 7.
• ImgBurn must be run once after install to add its location to the registry path.

Building Packages
If you plan on building windows executables for distribution you will also want to follow these steps.

• Install py2exe - http://sourceforge.net/projects/py2exe/files/ - direct link (http://sourceforge.net/projects/py2exe/files/py2exe/0.6.9/py2exe-0.6.9.w...)
• Install wix - http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/files/. As of this posting this is not currently integrated in devede win32 build but it will be soon.
• From the GTK install directory copy the "etc", "lib", and "share" folders to the devede trunk folders. These are used when building devede.exe
• Create zipped source package (trunk-src.zip), devede.exe (trunk\dist\devede.exe, you need the entire "dist" folder), and msi installers by running devede_build.py (You may have to edit this file to point to the correct location of python).

You may also want to download the GTK+ Preference Tool. You should be able to find it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-win/files/. This tool will allow you to set the GTK theme on your Windows user account.
At this point DeVeDe should be running in a development environment on your computer.