[chirp_devel] win32 build environment documentation?

[Robert Terzi]

On 12/1/2013 4:58 PM, Sander Pool wrote:

> What I meant was that I don't have a hard preference. Clearly if only
> one version works with CHIRP then that's the one that should be
> recommended :-)

I probably should have stated explicitly in my message that ActivePython
seems to work fine.  I downloaded it, tried to use their package manager
to install all of the necessary dependencies, but only succeeded in installing
pyserial.

Fortunately, the links that someone already been provided such as the PyGTK Win32 all-in-one
installer, take care of installing both the python specific wrappers as well
as the necessary binaries for the underlying libraries.

> In the not so distant past I struggled to get various packages installed
> on Windows with the non-AS version. That quickly turned into a rabbit
> hole of package managers and dependencies that never converged. The AS
> version takes care of some of that.

Agreed, and that's why I tried ActivePython first. I was a bit disappointed that
ActivePython's PyPm which is claimed to handle all that didn't at least have PyWin32
and PyGtk.

At some point, possibly on another system, I'll try it with just Python.org's
python build, and see what is available with easy-install.