Windows installer for bzr 2.5.1

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 6/14/2012 2:11 AM, Gordon Tyler wrote:
> On 2012-06-13, at 7:34 PM, Martin Packman
> <martin.packman at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'll get round to committing my instructions for doing this
>> somewhere, needing access to a particular ec2 account is still
>> something of a blocker for anyone else picking this up however.
> 
> Is it necessary to use this ec2 instance? Could you state the
> requirements for somebody who already has a Windows box?
> 
> Ciao Gordon
> 
> 

We have a document up about building the installers. It is about 4
'pages' long.

https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr-pqm/bzr/bzr.dev/view/head:/doc/developers/win32_build_setup.txt


I'm guessing that is probably slightly out of date, but close.

The last time I set up the EC2 instance, it took me at least a full
day. garyvdm was working to set up his own local instance (afaik he
never completed), we've considered setting up something on Babune
(never completed), etc.

So it is certainly possible to do. But Windows doesn't have "apt-get
build-dep bzr" to get all the packages nice and cleanly for everything
we need.

Also, the bzr windows installer is a case where we package all the
plugins as well. So you have all of their dependencies, and it is a
fairly long tail to track down.

We've tried to make it easier to get the installers built a few times.
What really worked in the end is "launch this EC2 image, do the
build", because everything else is just really hard to get bootstrapped.

John
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