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If possible use the online XLSForm converter. XLSForm.exe won't work on all Windows systems, it doesn't run the output xml through ODK Validate, and it won't be updated as frequently as the online version.

Using XLSForm.exe:

  1. Download the zip here.
  2. Extract it somewhere.
  3. Drag an XLSForm onto xlsform.exe. A corresponding xform will appear in the output directory.

Problems:

Some systems might be missing the Microsoft Visual C runtime DLL and it is not bundled with the exe.

If you are familiar with Python one work around would be to run the XLSForm code directly.

Setting up Python on Windows:

Install Python 2.7

This has been updated to use Python 2.7 (now built with 2.7.3)

Add Scripts directory to PATH

You only need to do this for the instructions below. Open a CMD window and execute:

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Python27\Scripts

Install pip

On Windows, Install setup-tools and use easy_install pip On Linux, you can use python-pip package.

InsecurePlatformWarning

To avoid this warning you likely need to install PyOpenSSL

pip install urllib3 pyopenssl ndg-httpsclient pyasn1
python
import urllib3.contrib.pyopenssl
urllib3.contrib.pyopenssl.inject_into_urllib3()
exit()

Install misc libraries

In the CMD window, run:

easy_install pip
pip install xlrd lxml

Download and install elementtree

Download these at: elementtree

unzip and run

python setup.py install

in the unzipped directory

Install py2exe

Install py2exe

Download and install the 32-bit version (0.6.9)

Building the exe:

  1. Download the pyxform source and add the nested pyxform folder to this project's root.

  2. Delete the .git repo within that directory.

  3. In this projects root directory python setup.py py2exe

  4. Create an output directory within the dist directory.

  5. Rename the dist directory to xlsform.

  6. Right-click on xlsform, choose Send To / Compressed (zipped) folder.

The resulting zip file is equivalent to the zip available on the opendatakit.org downloads page

NOTE: at the end of the build of the dist directory, you will get this (expected) summary:

copying C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\py2exe\run.exe -> D:\workspace\xlsform_exe\dist\xlsform.exe
The following modules appear to be missing
['ElementC14N', '_scproxy', 'cElementTree', 'odk_validate.check_xform']

*** binary dependencies ***
Your executable(s) also depend on these dlls which are not included,
you may or may not need to distribute them.

Make sure you have the license if you distribute any of them, and
make sure you don't distribute files belonging to the operating system.

   WS2_32.dll - C:\WINDOWS\system32\WS2_32.dll
   SHELL32.dll - C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll
   USER32.dll - C:\WINDOWS\system32\USER32.dll
   ADVAPI32.dll - C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.dll
   KERNEL32.dll - C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll