Thanks Mike. That's a good thing to note. Would you mind filing a bug against our docs for tracking purposes?
A lot of our dependencies are far harder to install on Windows than Linux, and sadly there's little we can do about this. We generally encourage people to use a VM with Ubuntu for a Review Board server instead of trying to install on Windows. Christian -- Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com Review Board - http://www.reviewboard.org VMware, Inc. - http://www.vmware.com On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, drmikecrowe <drmikecr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > After 2d of pain, I gave up on installing on Windows with 64-bit > Python. I was able to get everything but PySVN in place, and that > broke me. Some of the issues I experienced: > > 1) We use one of several subversion servers that are distributed as > installation packages. No development headers are present. > 2) Since there's no 64-bit PySVN executable (nor in pypi), I tried to > compile it manually. I downloaded PySVN source, but it requires a > subversion-devel equivalent system (i.e. headers such to compile > against). > 3) I downloaded the subversion 1.6.9 source, and put in the PySVN > Imports/ directory to compile against. > 4) Got PySVN started compiling, but then it needed "apr.h", which is a > dependency package for subversion. Downloaded the subversion-deps > package that is with the subversion source. This version is built > against an earlier version of Visual Studio. I downloaded the current > version from apache.org, and got it built. > 5) Started compiling again, and another unknown header ("apu.h", this > time), another dependency I'd need to tackle as in #4, and I gave up. > It might have been the last one (knowing my luck), but I decided to > cut my loses. > > In summary, PySVN kills you on a x64 bit install. I had the luxury of > only needing Python on my server for ReviewBoard, so I uninstalled 64- > bit Python, and installed 32-bit. Everything is going smoothly now. > > I'd recommend a warning in the Wiki about the PySVN dependency, to > save future wayfarers time. > > Mike > > -- > Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at > http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ > Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<reviewboard%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. > -- Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en
