Although most dependencies can be found in the windows-dependencies directory, we provide links to their official websites. If you are cloning with git, don't forget to initialize and update the submodules to get the windows-dependencies folder. You can use these two commands to perform this task from git bash:
git submodule init
git submodule update
All the dependencies provided in this folder are prebuilt. If you want to build them from source, you will need Microsoft visual Studio 2008.
Python installs a tool called Pip that allows to install packages in a simple way. You can find it in the python scripts directory. To install packages using Pip, you have to navigate to the scripts directory using a command prompt, for example:
Pip is able to install packages listed in a special text file, called the requirements file. To install all remaining dependencies, perform the following command:
Note that if you perform the command from the path where Pip is located, you need to specify the path to your Tw Blue root folder where the requirements file is located, for example:
Important! Install these 3 apps into the same folder, otherwise you won't be able to build the pa.c version. For example: D:\portableApps\NSISPortable, D:\PortableApps\PortableApps.com installer, ...
In order to add the support for spell checking in more languages than english you need to add some additional dictionaries to pyenchant. These are located on the dictionaries folder under windows-dependencies. Simply copy them to the share/enchant/myspell folder located in your enchant installation. They will be automatically copied when building a binary version.
Now that you have installed all these packages, you can run TW Blue from source using a command prompt. Navigate to the repo's `src` directory, and type the following command:
The documentation will be generated, placing each language in a separate folder in the doc directory. Move these folders (for example `de`, `en`, `es`, `fr`, `it`, ...) to `src/documentation`, creating the directory if necessary.
Also, copy the `license.txt` file located in the root of the repo to the documentation folder.
A binary version doesn't need python and the other dependencies to run, it's the same version that you will find on the TW Blue website if you download the zip files or the snapshot versions.
Run the gen_pot.bat file, located in the tools directory. Your python installation must be in your path environment variable. The pot file will appear in the tools directory.
* Navigate to the src directory, and create a binary version for x86: C:\python27\python setup.py py2exe
* Move the dist directory to the misc\pa.c format\app folder in this repo, and rename it to twblue
* Repeat these steps with Python for x64: C:\python27x64\python setup.py py2exe
* Move the new dist directory to the misc\pa.c format\app folder, and rename it to twblue64
* Run the PortableApps.com Launcher Generator, and follow the wizard. Choose the pa.c format folder and continue to generate the launcher. If the wizard is completed, you will see a file named TWBlue portable.exe inside the pa.c format folder.
* Run the PortableApps.com Installer, and follow the wizard. As in the above step, choose the pa.c format folder. When it completes, you will see a file named TWBluePortable_x.y.paf.exe inside the misc folder, where x.y is the version number.
