.. title: New Windows build environment .. slug: new_windows_environment .. date: 2010-08-13 16:38:02 .. tags: miro, work, dev
I spent a good amount of time over the last few months migrating Miro on Windows to a new Windows build environment that uses Python 2.6.5 and Visual C++ 9.0 (part of Visual Studio 2008).
I landed the changes two weeks ago. Janet, Ben and I identified a couple of problems and sorted those out. Last week I got the Windows build box to produce nightlies without requiring any babysitting.
Yay!
Features of the new Windows build environment:
get_requirements.sh
script that downloads
the versions of Python and libraries that you need automatically.
This also means that we can require Python 2.6 or later on all platforms for Miro. Therefore we can:
The one thing we still want to do is upgrade from gtk 2.16 to gtk 2.20. Bug 14037 covers the problems here. We're blocked by Bug 625972 in gtk.
I've written up instructions on setting up the new Windows build environment. It takes me about 30 minutes to do--mostly because it takes a while to install Visual C++ 9.0 Express. It's much easier to set up the new environment than the previous environment. When I first started at PCF a few years ago, it took me a couple of days to get the Windows build environment working.
For more details on the new Windows build environment, see the wiki page on WindowsBuildDocs.