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win32 instructions

Installation

  • Download the latest mingw, gsl, and gtk bundles from http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/?C=M;O=D
  • Also download Boost from SourceForge and unpack it in a directory of your choice (you specify it's path later on)
  • Obtain, compile and install Inkscape svn following these instructions http://inkscape.org/win32/win32buildnotes.html
  • unpackage the gsl bundle into the directory with the gtk bundle
  • download cmake; install at C:\cmake
  • check the directories in mingwenv.bat. Are they set correctly for you? (ignore RAGEL_BIN)
  • make a build directory
  • open cmd.exe 
    mingwenv.bat
cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" c:\path\to\2geom # be sure you have a CAPITAL '-G' there!
cmake -i # especially mind to set the install dir to where you want it installed (probably the gtk folder, e.g. c:/gtk210))
mingw32-make
  • copy the resulting .exe files into the inkscape install directory

If you want to be able to compile the ragel defined svg-parser as well, you must download ragel from here Unpack the windows binary package into a dir of your own choice. Check whether ragel's dir is set correctly in mingwenv.bat (RAGEL_BIN). Make sure you have ragel.exe and rlcodegen.exe in the dir you specify. If your package does not contain rlcodegen.exe you can copy rlgen-cd.exe and rename it to rlcodegen.exe :-)

PYTHON BINDINGS

To install python bindings, you need python2 and cython(>=0.16). Get cython from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#cython and install it to $PYTHON_PATH\Libs\site-packages 32-bit version is your safest bet. cmake should be able to find cython now. Make sure that PYTHON_PATH is set correctly to python2 in mingwenv.bat.

Continue with installation as described above. When running "cmake -i", remember to choose to build cython bindings and also lib2geom as a shared library!

If you get errors about missing DLL file, try copying lib2geom.dll to cython-bindings directory.

Note: If you have both python2 and python3 installed, make sure cmake uses python2. To ensure this, choose "advanced options" when running "cmake -i", scroll and set PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR and PYTHON_LIBRARY accordingly.

TROUBLESHOOTING

If things don't work out, here is a list of things you can try. Type make --version. It should display:

E:\inkscapelpe>mingw32-make --version
GNU Make 3.80
Copyright (C) 2002  Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Or something very similar. If it does not, probably windows finds a different make (Borland's or another?). Type set path=, then start again with mingwenv.bat etc...