[tahoe-dev] Windwos installation problems

[Shawn Willden]

On Friday 12 June 2009 05:58:17 am Black Dew wrote:
> > I happen to know, for example from the
> > Windows buildbot that we run -- http://allmydata.org/buildbot/
> > waterfall -- that mingw can reliably build modules for Python 2.5.
>
> Yes, the problem is only with 2.6 and later versions that moved to use
> VS2008 (and depend on MSVCR90.dll as a result).

A solution to your problems might be to install VS2008 Express; it's a 
free-as-in-beer download from MS, and a surprisingly decent compiler.

At some point we need to build a good binary-only, one-click-to-install Tahoe 
for Windows, though.

	Shawn.