contrib/win32/win32-build.txt
author Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
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The standalone Windows installer for Mercurial is built in a somewhat
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jury-rigged fashion.
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It has the following prerequisites, at least as I build it:
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  Python for Windows
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      http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.1/python-2.4.1.msi
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  MinGW
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      http://www.mingw.org/
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  Python for Windows Extensions
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      http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/
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  mfc71.dll (just download, don't install)
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      http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/
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  The py2exe distutils extension
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      http://sourceforge.net/projects/py2exe/
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  Inno Setup
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      http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
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  ISTool
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      http://www.istool.org/default.aspx/
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And, of course, Mercurial itself.
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Once you have all this installed and built, clone a copy of the
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Mercurial repository you want to package, and name the repo
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C:\hg\hg-release.
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In a shell, build a standalone copy of the hg.exe program:
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  python setup.py build -c mingw32 py2exe -b 1
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Copy mfc71.dll into the dist directory that just got created.
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Run ISTool, and open the C:\hg\hg-release\contrib\win32\mercurial.iss
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file.
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In ISTool, type Ctrl-F9 to compile the installer file.  The actual
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installer will be in the C:\hg\hg-release\Output directory.