| 1 | ## Windows binaries |
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| 3 | The windows binaries contain Python 64 bit version 3.7.3 or 2.7.16 with all the needed modules and the web2py in the specified version. |
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| 4 | You don't need anything else to run them on Windows. |
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| 5 | At least on Windows 7, if you get an error stating that "api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing" you have only to install the |
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| 6 | free and official "Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio" as described later |
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| 8 | |
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| 9 | ## Full Windows build recipe |
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| 11 | 1. get a clean Windows 10 (Windows 10 Professional English build 1809 64 bit, under Virtualbox in our case) |
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| 12 | 2. grab and install the official Python program: we've got version 3.7.3 or 2.7.16, 64 bit |
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| 13 | (https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.2/python-3.7.2-amd64.exe ) + select "add Python 3.7 to PATH" during its setup if Python 3. |
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| 14 | For Python 2 you need to manually add the folders for python27 and python27\Scripts to the system path. |
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| 15 | 3. update tools with |
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| 16 | "python -m pip install --upgrade pip" |
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| 17 | "pip install --upgrade setuptools" |
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| 18 | 4. download and install python-win32, which is needed for web2py to work with all features enabled |
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| 19 | (https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/releases/download/b224/pywin32-224.win-amd64-py3.7.exe) |
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| 20 | 5. grab latest web2py source from https://mdipierro.pythonanywhere.com/examples/static/web2py_src.zip (you need at least 2.18.3 for |
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| 21 | needed changes in gluon\admin.py). Unzip it in a dedicated folder, in this example C:\web2py - so that you have |
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| 22 | C:\web2py\web2py.py inside) |
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| 23 | 6. install PyInstaller with: |
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| 24 | pip install pyinstaller (we've got PyInstaller-3.4.tar.gz ) |
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| 25 | 7. download and install the free Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable per Visual Studio 2017, 64 bit version, from |
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| 26 | https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/vc_redist.x64.exe |
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| 27 | 8. additional (but not required) packages to work better in the Windows world: |
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| 28 | pip install psycopg2 = psycopg2-2.7.7-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl |
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| 29 | pip install pyodbc = pyodbc-4.0.26-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl |
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| 30 | download the file python_ldap-3.1.0-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl from https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ and install it from that |
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| 31 | folder with the command 'pip install python_ldap-3.1.0-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl' |
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| 33 | 9. copy build_web2py.py, web2py.win.spec and web2py.win_no_console.spec from this folder to C:\web2py\ |
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| 34 | 10. (only for python 2) - due to a PyInstaller bug, you need to manually change the file gluon\rocket.py, line 26, from IS_JYTHON |
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| 35 | = platform.system() == 'Java' to IS_JYTHON = False |
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| 36 | 11. (optional, for having a full working interactive shell) change the fake site.py module included within the PyInstaller installation |
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| 37 | with the content of the files web2py.site_37.py or web2py.site_27.py from this folder - see comments inside these files for details |
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| 38 | 12. open a CMD and go to C:\web2py. Run: |
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| 40 | python build_web2py.py |
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| 42 | If everything goes fine, you'll obtain the 64 bit binary build zipped as C:\web2py\web2py_win.zip. |
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| 43 | If you try to run it in a 32 bit Windows system, you'll correctly get a 'web2py.exe not a valid Win32 application' error message. |
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| 45 | ## Gothca: |
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| 46 | - at least on Windows 7, you can get an error stating that "api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing". You can easily resolve it by |
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| 47 | installing "Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio" described earlier |
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