An installer for a buildout-ready Windows
by Tarek Ziadé
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.
EDIT: the downloads urls have changed (thanks Sasha!)
You can get it here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3265240/python2.4.4-win32.zip
and another version that adds developing tools like vim and tail:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3265240/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!
@Darci: You’re welcome
I guess I’ll settle for 2nd. Good work, maybe we’ll get more casual windows users on buildout!
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
@Tim: thanks ! corrected
thanks for this! saved me a lot of windows frustration
My buildout has patches in them…patch is an unknown command?
@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
I also needed a windows version of the unix patch utility, I got it from gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htm
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
Hey FranGM, thanks for the feedback !
what problem did you have ? we can fix it with your help,
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
Anyone have an updated link for these files? neither of the links (in the main body or the 2nd ones posted in the comments) are working for me. Thanks
@Jeff
Sorry about that… My previous company removed those files without telling me.
I am going to provide them in one of my personal server. Until then you can build them on your own using these buildouts : http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/win32binaries
@Jeff. It is going to take some time, because some files required to build the zips were also removed from that server. so they need to be recreated themselves too.
If you have some time I can explain you the process to recreate everything.
I do have some time, how can I contact you regarding this?
Jeff: Thanks to Sasha, you can get these binaries again (he had them). I am editing the blog entry now.
If you are still interested in the recipe to build these binaries (so they can evolve do more installs), let me know;