Re: local windows builds & testing from source

On 4/24/06, sod/sgt-d <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> i am trying to get my computer setup 100% (or as close as possible) so
> that i can make local builds of bitpim directly from the source.
>
Do you really need to make builds, or just run from source?  Setting up to
make builds is a little tricky (at least for me) without a compiler, but
possible.


>  problem #1:
>
> i would like to get pycrypto-2.0.1 and paramiko-1.5.4 installed properly
> so that i can have support for bitfling, but i keep getting errors like
> this:
>

Look for a  prebuilt windows binary for pycrypto.  I believe that Paramiko
should then install once you have the pycrpto binary installed.  No compiler
should be required.
.
>
> problem #2:
>
> i am not exactly sure how to get create a local build...  something that
> would run the iss script to generate a windows installer that i can run
> and test locally.  in other words, if i ever make changes and want to
> submit my work to the trunk, i would want to make sure that my code worked
> locally first.
>
Unless you want to distribute builds to others, it is sufficent to run
BitPim from source (python bp.py).


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Stephen Wood

One of the "Steves" of Project Steve at http://www.ncseweb.org/.