When you need to run a buildout under Windows, you have to take care of setting up quite a few things, like installing MinGW and linking it to Python, and setting up a svn command-line client for most buildouts.
We created a simple package that contains everything needed to make your windows buildout-friendly. It is a simple zip file that contains a batch script and third-party installers. When the batch is run, the environment variables are set as well, and win32-compatible buildouts should run without problems from there.
You can get it here:
http://release.ingeniweb.com/third-party-dist/python2.4.4-win32.zip
and another version that adds developing tools like vim and tail:
http://release.ingeniweb.com/third-party-dist/python2.4.4-win32-dev.zip
This zip file is built itself with a buildout that we might publish soon so you can make a custom zip file.
Let me be the first to say: this just rocks! And: thank you!
Comment by Darci Hanning — January 20, 2008 @ 9:31 pm |
@Darci: You’re welcome
Comment by Tarek Ziadé — January 21, 2008 @ 4:42 pm |
I guess I’ll settle for 2nd. Good work, maybe we’ll get more casual windows users on buildout!
Comment by Matthew Wilkes — January 22, 2008 @ 1:50 am |
FYI, the file locations have changed:
http://release.ingeniweb.com/third-party-dist/python2.4.4-win32.zip
http://release.ingeniweb.com/third-party-dist/python2.4.4-win32-dev.zip
-Tim
Comment by Tim Knapp — February 11, 2008 @ 11:59 pm |
@Tim: thanks ! corrected
Comment by Tarek Ziadé — February 12, 2008 @ 8:50 am |
thanks for this! saved me a lot of windows frustration
Comment by Franklin Kingma — May 6, 2008 @ 2:10 pm |
My buildout has patches in them…patch is an unknown command?
Comment by Jan van der Ven — May 15, 2008 @ 8:58 am |
@Franklin: You are welcome
@Jan: I am not sure what you are saying, if you have an issue, let me know in private, I can help around
Comment by Tarek Ziadé — May 15, 2008 @ 4:20 pm |
I also needed a windows version of the unix patch utility, I got it from gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htm
Comment by Franklin Kingma — May 27, 2008 @ 11:54 am |
Hey there! I’ve using this package to get a buildout on windows. It did not work at all, but I modified it and added some programs and now everything works for me (windows xp)
Is there any place where I can upload this?
Regars
Francisco
Comment by FranGM — August 21, 2008 @ 2:44 pm |
Hey FranGM, thanks for the feedback !
what problem did you have ? we can fix it with your help,
Comment by Tarek Ziadé — August 21, 2008 @ 10:15 pm |
This seems to have worked great, but to get the buildout I was using to run it required the windows utility junction.exe, which I found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx
Comment by Derrick Stone — June 29, 2009 @ 2:51 pm |