= Building on Microsoft Windows = [[Image(http://xpra.org/icons/windows.png)]] For general information, see [/wiki/Building] first. [[BR]] {{{#!div class="box" == 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] [[BR]] 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] ---- 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]) }}}