History:How to Build Picard for Windows
This page explains the process of building the Picard installes for Windows. It only works for Picard 1.2 and newer, which no longer supports AmpliFIND.
Requirements
- Python 2.7.x
- http://www.python.org/download/
- Download and install "Python 2.7.x Windows Installer"
- Add C:\Python27 to %PATH%
- PyQt 4.9.x
- http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download
- Download and install "PyQt-Py2.7-x86-gpl-4.9.x-1.exe"
- Visual C++ 2008 Express
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=14597
- Download and install "vcsetup.exe"
- NSIS 2.46
- http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download
- Download and install "nsis-2.46-setup.exe"
- Mutagen 1.20
- http://code.google.com/p/mutagen/downloads/list
- Download and unpack "mutagen-1.20.tar.gz"
- Run
python setup.py install
in the unpacked directory
- MingGW
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/
- Download and install the latest "mingw-get-inst-xxxx.exe"
- Uncheck the C compiler option, we need only the directory structure and mingw-get
- Add C:\MinGW\bin to %PATH%
- gettext
- Run
mingw-get install gettext
- Run
- libdiscid
- http://musicbrainz.org/doc/libdiscid
- Download "libdiscid-0.1.1-win32bin.zip" and put "discid.dll" to the Picard source code directory
- Chromaprint
- http://acoustid.org/chromaprint
- Download "chromaprint-fpcalc-0.6-win32.zip" and put "fpcalc.exe" to the Picard source code directory
- py2exe 0.6.9
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/py2exe/files/py2exe/0.6.9/
- Download and install "py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.7.exe"
Running Picard From Sources
Before you can run Picard from sources, you need to build the C extension. Start the VS console using "Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt", go to the source directory and run this command:
python setup.py build_ext -i
After you have done this, you can run Picard directly from the sources using:
python tagger.py
Building the Installer
First you need to copy msvcr90.dll and msvcp90.dll from "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\redist\x86\Microsoft.VC90.CRT" to the source code directory, so that py2exe can find them. Then you can build the installer using this command:
python setup.py bdist_nsis
Known Issues
It is possible that the resulting picard.exe does not show the proper file icon. This is probably a bug of py2exe on Vista. You can fix the icon with the tool Resource Hacker or any other tool, that can edit the resources in executables.