Building on Microsoft Windows

For general information, see wiki/Building first.

Building

The new build system is a work in progress, see #678 for details.

Steps:

• install ​mingw-w64
• run this setup script: MINGW_SETUP.sh

Not covered here yet (see #678):

• pygtkglext: follow ticket:678#comment:27
• pygobject patching (minor)
• websockify
• CUDA / NVENC / pycuda
• install gsview and ghostscript (see wiki/Dependencies)
• for updating an existing setup, run pacman -Syu and this script: UPDATE_PYTHON_LIBS.sh

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The old build system is very hard to setup: follow ​these instructions to build all the required dependencies (and trim the parts that are only relevant to ​winswitch)

Packaging

The MS Windows specific build scripts are here.

Version 2.0 uses a simple shell script, older versions used a combination of the setup.py file and BAT files. In both cases, an innosetup script generates the executable installer.