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= Installation Guidelines: Windows - Developer (Manual) =

If you are a Developer running Windows and wishing to install Python & all dependent libraries manually then this is the right page for you.

== Install Python ==
3.7 is preferred, although 2.7 is currently still supported

NB For 2.7, 32-bit Python should be used even on 64-bit Windows:
* http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.16/python-2.7.16.msi

== Install Python Libraries ==
Windows users should generally use Windows Installers, where available

Note: These libraries are checked here:
* https://github.com/flavour/eden/blob/master/modules/s3_update_check.py

=== Mandatory ===
* [http://codespeak.net/lxml lxml] for XML export/import: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#lxml
* [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely/ Shapely] for GIS Features: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#shapely
* [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools/ setuptools] for installing dateutil (& tweepy): http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11.win32-py2.7.exe
* [http://labix.org/python-dateutil dateutil]: http://labix.org/download/python-dateutil/python-dateutil-1.5.tar.gz
 * No Windows installer, so install by unzipping, opening a command line inside the folder & {{{python setup.py install}}}

=== Optional ===
* [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd xlrd] for XLS output: https://pypi.python.org/packages/42/85/25caf967c2d496067489e0bb32df069a8361e1fd96a7e9f35408e56b3aab/xlrd-1.0.0.tar.gz
* [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt xlwt] for XLS output: https://pypi.python.org/packages/0b/69/644313df86e6375ec2c6b34ec8ac544b9cc7803b7d943223d32811860f3d/xlwt-1.1.2.tar.gz
* [http://www.reportlab.com/software/opensource/rl-toolkit/download/ ReportLab] for PDF output: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#reportlab
* [https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow Pillow] Python Image Library for PDFs: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pillow

* [http://gdal.org GDAL] for Shapefile support:
 * http://download.gisinternals.com/sdk/downloads/release-1600-gdal-1-10-1-mapserver-6-4-0/GDAL-1.10.1.win32-py2.7.msi
 * http://download.gisinternals.com/sdk/downloads/release-1600-gdal-1-10-1-mapserver-6-4-0/gdal-110-1600-core.msi

* [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyRTF PyRTF] for Survey to export as RTF: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyrtf/files/pyrtf/0.45/PyRTF-0.45.tar.gz/download

* [http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/installing.html MatPlotLib] for charts (used in the Survey application but not for the S3Report pivottable reports): http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.3.0/matplotlib-1.3.0.win32-py2.7.exe/download
* [http://numpy.scipy.org numpy] required by matplotlib & also Vulnerability module: http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.7.1/numpy-1.7.1-win32-superpack-python2.7.exe/download

* [http://ipython.org IPython] for a nicer interactive shell: http://archive.ipython.org/release/0.12.1/ipython-0.12.1.win32.exe

* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ Python extensions for Windows]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20218/pywin32-218.win32-py2.7.exe/download

* [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/tweepy/ tweepy] python library for Twitter !Send/Receive: https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/t/tweepy/tweepy-2.1.tar.gz
* [https://github.com/ckoepp/TwitterSearch TwitterSearch] python library to search Twitter: https://github.com/ckoepp/TwitterSearch/archive/master.zip
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyserial/files/ Pyserial] to use a Modem for SMS: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyserial/files/pyserial/2.5/pyserial-2.5.win32.exe/download

* [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rpy2/ RPy2] for Climate module: https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/rpy2/rpy2-2.3.8.tar.gz
* [http://www.scipy.org SciPy] for Climate module: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/dhzoqiqp/scipy-0.12.0.win32-py2.7.exe
* [http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/ NetCDF] for Climate module: https://code.google.com/p/netcdf4-python/downloads/detail?name=netCDF4-1.0.5.win32-py2.7.exe&can=2&q=

* [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/ PyTZ] for Timezone awareness (unused currently)
* [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pywurfl/ PyWURFL] for Browser Capabilities (unused currently)

* [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MySQL-python/ MySQLDB for accessing MySQL databases]: http://www.codegood.com/download/10/
* [http://initd.org/psycopg/ Psycopg for accessing PostgreSQL databases]:
 * [http://www.stickpeople.com/projects/python/win-psycopg/2.5.1/psycopg2-2.5.1.win32-py2.7-pg9.2.4-release.exe PostgreSQL-9.2.4]

== Install git ==

A Windows installer is [https://git-for-windows.github.io/ available here] -- pick the latest one available and install it.

Note: Do not install or use "git bash". It is incompatible with instructions shown here. It is incompatible with git used from the Windows command prompt. It has been known to damage git repositories. To avoid confusion and make it easier for us to help you, please run git from the Windows command prompt.


== Next ==
Configure git; install Web2Py and Sahana Eden:
 * InstallationGuidelines/Developer/PostPython