[tahoe-dev] Compilation and using problems with tahoe 1.2.0 on many platforms ?

[denis bonnenfant]

Hi,

I recently discovered tahoe and I'm currently trying to setup a big backup grid 
on a large set of workstations in a school. The nodes are mostly debian (etch 
and sarge) for servers, and the workstations XP.

Trying to install tahoe on these machines, i encounter some problems :

- on debien etch, packages are broken, as many of the binary packages supplied 
as dependancies depends on a libc version from sid or ubuntu.

- on WinXP, I first try to use the tahoe.exe found in the official allmydata 
windows package.
I setup a node, copy introducer.furl from my introducer in c:\tahoe, but when i 
want to run tahoe.exe start c:\tahoe, i got this error :

STARTING c:\tahoe
Can't find twistd (it comes with Twisted).  Aborting.

I tried to compile it, using cygwin make windows-exe, but it doesn't work, as 
py2exe doesn't support cygwin. I tried to use native python for the py2exe 
process, but it never succeeds, as py2exe  always complains that  lots of 
modules will not be included in the exe.

If i launch the cygwin's tahoe directly from cygwin shell ( bin/tahoe ), i get 
exactly the same error than using allmydata's .exe

Did i missed something ? I read all the docs, but i found nothing related with 
these issues.

Thanks

Denis