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
• You python install is in 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

Running Digsby

python Digsby.py