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This page explains the process of building [[MusicBrainz Picard]] and the installer for Windows. It only works for Picard 1.2 and newer, which no longer supports AmpliFIND.

== Requirements ==

* Python 2.7.x
** http://python.org/download/
** Download and install "Python 2.7.x Windows Installer"
** Add C:\Python27 to %PATH%
* PyQt 4.10.x
** http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download
** Download and install "PyQt4-4.10.x-gpl-Py2.7-Qt4.8.x-x32.exe"
* libdiscid
** http://musicbrainz.org/doc/libdiscid
** Download "libdiscid-0.6.1-win32.zip" and put "discid.dll" in your Windows\System32 folder
* Pip for Windows
** https://sites.google.com/site/pydatalog/python/pip-for-windows
** Download to a location you find again (no installation)
** in Pip_Win:
*** <code>pip install mutagen</code> for Mutagen (1.22 tested)
*** <code>pip install discid</code> for python-discid (1.1.x tested)
* gettext
** http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gettext.htm
** Add the gettext folder to %PATH% (normally ''C:\Programs\GnuWin32\bin'')
* Visual C++ 2008 Express
** http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7729279
** Download and install "vcsetup.exe"
* Chromaprint
** http://acoustid.org/chromaprint
** Download "chromaprint-fpcalc-1.1-win-i86.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"
* NSIS 2.46 (only if you want to create Picard.exe)
** http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download
** Download and install "nsis-2.46-setup.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 these commands:

 python setup.py build_ext -i
 python setup.py build_locales -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 [http://angusj.com/resourcehacker/ Resource Hacker] or any other tool, that can edit the resources in executables.

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