This process has been observed to work on 32-bit Windows XP and Windows 7.
Let's set up a nice PATH:
set PATH=C:\Git\bin;C:\Python27;C:\MinGW\bin;%PATH%
Install msysgit (the official windows port of Git):
- URL is https://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/Git-1.8.3-preview20130601.exe
- Install to C:Git
- Default line ending mode (converts to windows on checkout / to unix on commit)
- Don't bother with any shell integration, but the font is nice.
Install python2.7, py2exe, pycrypto from installers:
Install MinGW Installation Manager Setup Tool:
There is no need to let it do GUI stuff. You can then install gcc and tools:
mingw-get install gcc mingw-utils
At the time of writing this seems to yield a broken environment - so copy some DDL's around. To fix cc1plus:
cd C:\MinGW copy bin\libgmp-10.dll libexec\gcc\mingw32\4.7.2\ copy bin\libmpc-2.dll libexec\gcc\mingw32\4.7.2\ copy bin\libmpfr-1.dll libexec\gcc\mingw32\4.7.2\
It might be that libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll, libiconv-2.dll or libintl-8.dll need similar.
We need to generate a def file and then a a file before we'll be able to build against our Python install:
cd c:\Python27\libs pexports c:\windows\system32\python27.dll > python26.def dlltool -C -d python27.def -l libpython27.a
You can check the exported symbols with nm (look for I for import symbol):
nm libpython27.a
Out of the box python2.7 will not be able to use this version of mingw32. Edit C:\Python27\Lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py and remove all mentions of -mno-cygwin.
Python needs to be told to use mingw32. You can do this with a C:\Python27\Lib\distutils\distutils.cfg:
[build] compiler=mingw32
The default site.py has an abs_file that seems to break when using py2exe. Patch abs_file to catch ImportErrors:
def abs__file__():
"""Set all module' __file__ attribute to an absolute path"""
for m in sys.modules.values():
if hasattr(m, '__loader__'):
continue # don't mess with a PEP 302-supplied __file__
try:
m.__file__ = os.path.abspath(m.__file__)
- except (AttributeError, OSError):
+ except (AttributeError, OSError, ImportError):
pass
You are now ready to get the code:
git clone https://github.com/yaybu/Yaybu.exe C:\Yaybu.exe cd C:\Yaybu.exe
Install setuptools using the ez_setup.py script provided:
python ez_setup.py
py2exe will break with setuptools because it is compressed. A better way to deal with it is needed, but for now:
python -m easy_install --always-unzip --upgrade "setuptools<1.0"
(You can upgrade to the active version because it detects it is already the latest version).
Then install pip and get the requirements:
python -m easy_install pip python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
This doesn't actually install any yay/yaybu code (for which you have a few choices):
python -m pip install git+git://github.com/yaybu/yay.git#egg=yay python -m pip install git+git://github.com/yaybu/yaybu.git#egg=yaybu
or (if you check out the code by hand or with buildbot):
python -m pip install -e src/yay python -m pip install -e src/yaybu
There are extra deps for the tests:
python -m pip install nose2 unittest2 mock fakechroot python -m nose2 yay yaybu
Run py2exe:
python setup.py py2exe
This will create a directory with python extensions, a library.zip and a YaybuShell.exe. This binary is equivalent to the yaybu command on a unix system.