ZBarWin64

A Windows 64-bit wheel build of the zbar Python package.

Installing on Windows 64-bit

Install a release from this repo:

https://github.com/NaturalHistoryMuseum/ZBarWin64/releases/download/v0.10/zbar-0.10-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl

The wheel was built using Visual C++ 2013. If Python reports an ImportError when import zbar is run then you will need to install the Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013.

Building

You should only need to build if you want to release a new version.

• Install Visual C++ 2013 Community Edition

• Build the 64-bit Release target of zbar64

• Install the latest Python 2.7 release of Anaconda

• Build the zbar Python extension module and a wheel:

  cd <where you cloned this repo>\python
  pip install --upgrade pip
  pip install --upgrade setuptools
  pip install wheel
  build.bat