= Building on Microsoft Windows =

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For general information, see [/wiki/Building] first.

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== Building ==
The new build system is a work in progress, see #678 for details.

Steps:
* install [https://mingw-w64.org/ mingw-w64]
* run this setup script: [/browser/xpra/trunk/src/win32/MINGW_SETUP.sh MINGW_SETUP.sh]
* run the build script: [/browser/xpra/trunk/src/win32/PY27_MINGW_BUILD.sh]

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Not covered here yet (see #678):
* pygtkglext: follow ticket:678#comment:27
* pygobject patching (minor)
* websockify
* CUDA / NVENC / pycuda
* install gsview and ghostscript (see [/wiki/Dependencies])
* for updating an existing setup, run {{{pacman -Syu}}} and this script: [/browser/xpra/trunk/src/win32/UPDATE_PYTHON_LIBS.sh UPDATE_PYTHON_LIBS.sh]

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The legacy build system is very hard to setup: follow [http://winswitch.org/dev/win32.html these instructions] to build all the required dependencies (and trim the parts that are only relevant to [http://winswitch.org winswitch])
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