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= Build Tribler on Windows from Scratch =

''This page may be outdated, see Tribler/readme.txt in the source tree for up-to-date info.''

To build a Tribler installer on Windows from scratch, do the following.

== Installing required software ==

  1. Download and install [http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.4.3/ Python 2.4.3] into {{{C:Python243wx2801}}}.
  1. Download and install [https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10718&package_id=10559 wxPython 2.8.0.1-unicode].
  1. Download and install [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15583 py2exe 0.6.6].
  1. Download and install the [http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download NSIS installer] into {{{C:Program FilesNSIS}}}.
  1. Download and install some Subversion client (for instance [http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads TortoiseSVN]).
  1. Download and install [http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/MeTooCrypto#Downloads M2Crypto 0.18-win32 (Contributed Build)].
  1. Download and install [http://www.initd.org/tracker/pysqlite PySqlite and/or APSW].

== Preparing the source ==

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  1. Check out {{{https://svn.tribler.org/abc/branches/mainbranch}}} into {{{C:svnmainbranch}}}.
  1. Check out {{{https://svn.tribler.org/ffmpeg/branches/ffmpeg-win32-ivaylo-jan2007}}} into {{{C:svnfmpeg}}}.
  1. Check out {{{https://svn.tribler.org/vlc/branches/vlc-0.8.6a-win32-ivaylo-mar2007}}} into {{{C:svnvlc}}}.
  1. Copy the files in {{{C:svnfmpeg}}} and {{{C:svnvlc}}} into {{{C:svnmainbranch}}}.
  1. Rename the copied {{{C:svnmainbranchzip}}} to {{{vlc}}}.

== Build installer ==

  1. Open {{{CMD}}} and chdir to {{{C:svnmainbranch}}}
  1. Run {{{makedist}}}

You will now have an installer at {{{C:svnmainbranchdistTribler-VERSION.exe}}}, enjoy :)
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