Required tools:

• msysgit
• cygwin
  • Note: on windows with UAC enabled, it may fail to run setup.exe after downloading packages. You'll have to run it manually.
  • After installing, open a cygwin shell (cygwin.bat) and execute

    perl -e "use Switch;"

  • If you don't get an error, cygwin is configured properly. Otherwise, execute the following:

    • curl -L http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/R/RG/RGARCIA/Switch-2.16.tar.gz -o Switch-2.16.tar.gz

    • tar -xzf Switch-2.16.tar.gz

    • cd Switch-2.16

    • perl Makefile.PL && make && make install

• Microsoft Visual C++ and components
  • Visual C++ Express
  • .NET Framework 4
  • Windows SDK 7.1
  • After installing these components, run

    "c:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Setup\WindowsSdkVer.exe" -version:v7.1

• SWIG
  • You'll have to put this on your

    PATH

    manually.
• An SVN client (Tortoise, Slik, CollabNet)
  • Make sure the executing

    svn

    in your cmd.exe shell succeeds. If not, you'll have to add your client's

    bin

    directory to your

    PATH

    manually.
• Python 2.6.*
  • As of 2012-Jul-25, the latest binary release is 2.6.6
  • Also unpack the source distribution on top of your install directory. This will make the headers (*.h) and object files (*.lib) for components that will be compiled.
• setuptools
• bakefile
• pip - install with

  c:\Python26\Scripts\easy_install pip

• virtualenv - install with

  c:\Python26\Scripts\pip install virtualenv

Dependencies

Assumptions - replace where necessary: * Your digsby checkout is in

c:\digsby

c:\Python26

1. Open the 'Microsoft Visual Studio Command Prompt'

2. cd c:\digsby

3. c:\Python26\Scripts\virtualenv -p c:\python26\python.exe --distribute digsby-venv

4. digsby-venv\Scripts\activate.bat

5. python bootstrap.py

6. deactivate

7. digsby-venv\Scripts\activate.bat

   • bootstrap modifies the activate script.
8. Run MSYS from within your command prompt by executing

   Git Bash.lnk

   from your msysgit install directory
   • You should now be inside of an MSYS shell with the correct Visual Studio environment variables set.

9. buildout

10. python sanity.py -_xmlextra -blist -cgui -sip -wx -wx.calendar -wx.lib -wx.py -wx.stc -wx.webview

    • All components should be

      OK

      . If not, see

      Dependency Troubleshooting

      , below.

11. python digsby\build\msw\build_all.py

12. python sanity.py

    • All components should be

      OK

      . If not, see

      Dependency Troubleshooting

      , below.

Dependency Troubleshooting

TODO

Link explainin how to fix the missing:

vcvarsall.bat

VS90COMNTOOLS

VS100COMNTOOLS

Running Digsby

python Digsby.py