Changes between Version 195 and Version 196 of TracOnWindows

Timestamp:

Apr 27, 2007, 4:45:02 AM (17 years ago)

Author:

anonymous

Comment:

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TracOnWindows

@@ -15 +15 @@
 == Method 1: Experimental All-In-One Installer ==
 
-This installation script only requires a Python 2.4 installation and will download and install the basic Trac dependencies and optionally the Subversion libraries.
+This installation script only requires a Python 2.4 installation and will download and install the basic Trac dependencies and optionally the Subversion libraries. It does not always succeed - see the section Troubleshooting below.
 
   1. Download and double-click this script to install Trac: [attachment:trac-0.10.3-win32-install.py?format=raw trac-0.10.3-win32-install.py]
@@ -105 +105 @@
 Ok, now that Trac and all its requirements have been installed you can create your first project and try it out.
 
-This example will create the projects in "C:\Projects".  This is a good default location, but you can put them in another drive or folder if you prefer.
+This example will create the projects in "C:\projects".  This is a good default location, but you can put them in another drive or folder if you prefer.
 
 Back to the command line:
 {{{
-cd \
-mkdir Projects
-cd Projects
+md \projects
+cd projects
 }}}
 
 '''Optional:''' if you're using Trac with Subversion you can create a new repository for your source code:
 {{{
-mkdir svn
-svnadmin create svn\my-project
+mkdir \projects\svn
+svnadmin create \projects\svn\my-project
 }}}
 
@@ -133 +132 @@
 '''Subversion users:''' when asked for the "Path to repository" input the folder of the repository you just created:
 {{{
-Path to repository [/path/to/repos]> c:/Projects/svn/my-project
+Path to repository [/path/to/repos]> c:/projects/svn/my-project
 }}}
 
@@ -157 +156 @@
 The Subversion library is not installed properly.  Be sure you used the "-Z" option with easy_install when [#svnbindings installing] the Subversion bindings. 
 
+==== Error: Setup script exited with error: Python was built with version 7.1 of Visual Studio, and extensions need to be built with the same version of the compiler, but it isn't installed. ====
+
+From [http://www.mail-archive.com/trac-dev@googlegroups.com/msg00997.html]
+
+> The problem is that the pre-built Windows binaries for PySQLite are
+> currently not detected by setuptools, so it is trying to download and
+> compile the sources which requires a build environment.  Unfortunately
+> this is not particularly common or easy on Windows.  I have reported
+> the problem to the PySQLite developers, so hopefully they will
+> addresss this soon: http://initd.org/tracker/pysqlite/ticket/191
+
+
+It appears you can successfully install Trac by following a combination of Method 3: Manual Installation and Method 2: Using Installers, above. The critical step for installing PySQLite is to use the self-installing EXE version, which does not trigger the bogus compile step. As noted above, download and execute the appropriate file:
+
+
+|| ''PySqlite'' ||  [http://initd.org/pub/software/pysqlite/releases/2.3/2.3.2/pysqlite-2.3.2.win32-py2.4.exe pysqlite-2.3.2.win32-py2.4.exe] (or the [http://initd.org/pub/software/pysqlite/releases/2.3/2.3.2/pysqlite-2.3.2.win32-py2.3.exe Python 2.3 version]) ||
+
+
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 See also: the TracOnWindows/Advanced instructions, TracOnWindows/Rewrite for discussing improvements to this page and ["Trac0.9/TracOnWindows"] for the previous version of this document.