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/2.7.3/python-2.7.3.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-1.2.14.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 ¶

• ​IPython for a nicer interactive shell: ​http://archive.ipython.org/release/0.12/ipython-0.12.win32-setup.exe
• ​Python extensions for Windows: ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build216/pywin32-216.win32-py2.7.exe/download

• ​xlrd for XLS output: ​http://pypi.python.org/packages/any/x/xlrd/xlrd-0.7.1.win32.exe
• ​xlwt for XLS output: ​http://pypi.python.org/packages/any/x/xlwt/xlwt-0.7.2.win32.exe

• ​MatPlotLib for charts (used in the Survey application & for the S3Cube pivottable reports): ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.1.0/matplotlib-1.1.0.win32-py2.7.exe/download
• ​numpy required by matplotlib: ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/NumPy/1.6.1/numpy-1.6.1-win32-superpack-python2.7.exe/download

• ​tweepy python library to interact with Twitter: ​http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/t/tweepy/tweepy-1.8.tar.gz
• ​Pyserial to use a Modem for SMS: ​http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyserial/files/pyserial/2.5/pyserial-2.5.win32.exe/download

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

• ​MySQLDB for accessing MySQL databases: ​http://www.codegood.com/download/10/
• ​Psycopg for accessing PostgreSQL databases:
  • ​PostgreSQL-9.1.2

Install git ¶

We use the ​git Distributed Version Control System.

Several downloads are ​available here, pick the latest one available and install it.

If you want to develop using the "forks"-feature of GitHub (which are basically branches - but in your own repository) or by commiting code directly to the eden repository, you have to ​create a GitHub account.

After that you can setup your git by configuring your SSH keys and accountdata. A pretty good tutorial is available at the ​GitHub-Manual.

Next ¶

Install Web2Py & Sahana:

• InstallationGuidelines/Developer/PostPython