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

2.7 is currently recommended. (2.6 works for all core functionality, but doesn't allow you to use the S3Cube pivot table functions)

NB 32-bit Python should be used even on 64-bit Windows:

• ​http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.2/python-2.7.2.msi

Install Python Libraries

Windows users should generally use Windows Installers, where available

Mandatory

• ​lxml for XML export/import: ​http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/l/lxml/lxml-2.3.win32-py2.7.exe
• ​Shapely for GIS Features: ​http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/S/Shapely/Shapely-1.2.13.win32-py2.7.exe
• ​ReportLab for PDF output: ​http://www.reportlab.com/ftp/reportlab-2.5.win32-py2.7.exe
• ​PIL Python Image Library for PDFs: ​http://effbot.org/downloads/PIL-1.1.7.win32-py2.7.exe
• ​setuptools for installing dateutil (& tweepy): ​http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11.win32-py2.7.exe
• ​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

• ​xlwt for XLS output

• ​numpy required by matplotlib
• ​SciPy required for S3Cube
• ​MatPlotLib for charts (used in the Survey application & for the S3Cube pivottable reports)

• ​tweepy python library to interact with twitter
• ​Pyserial for SMS Features

• ​PyTZ for Timezone awareness
• ​PyWURFL for Browser Capabilities (unused currently)

• ​MySQLDB for accessing MySQL databases: ​http://www.codegood.com/download/10/
• ​Psycopg for accessing PostgreSQL databases:
  • ​PostgreSQL-9.0.4
  • ​PostgreSQL-8.4.4

Install Bzr

We use the ​Bazaar Distributed Version Control System Several downloads are ​available, but we recommend using the Python Installer:

• ​http://launchpad.net/bzr/2.4/2.4.1/+download/bzr-2.4.1-1.win32-py2.7.exe

Once you have done some hacking & are ready to share this with others, then ​register for an account on LaunchPad, generate an SSH Key (ssh-keygen), and then push to your branch:

• Unzip ssh.zip to a folder in your path (e.g. 'windows')
• set HOME = C:\Users\windowsusername (Best to do this in System Properties | Environment Variables to preserve across boots)
• Create SSH keypair using ssky-keygen.cmd

• bzr whoami "Full Name <email@address.org>"
  bzr add
  bzr remove
  bzr commit
  bzr launchpad-login mylpusername
  bzr push lp:~mylpusername/sahana-eden/mybranch
  

Next

Install Web2Py & Sahana:

• InstallationGuidelines/Developer/PostPython