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Building darcs trunk
Building from a tarball
Running as different user

Building darcs trunk

0. Install Darcs (​http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Binaries, "Windows without Cygwin")

1. Add the darcs directory to the search path (see below)

2. Follow the steps in "Building from a tarball"

Building from a tarball

0. Get Python 2.5 (​http://python.org/download/releases/2.5.4/)

1. Add the Python to the search path (rough translation from German Windows 2000):

Start -> Settings -> System control -> System -> Enhanced -> Environment variables -> System variables: add ";C:\Python25;C:\Python25\Scripts" to the "Path" entry

3. Install win32api for Python 2.5 (​http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78018)

Note: Build 213 does not work on Windows 2000, Build 212 does.

7. Open the command line interpreter (cmd/command)

8. Get Tahoe from Darcs:

darcs get --lazy ​http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk-hashedformat tahoe

9. cd to tahoe and build Tahoe:

python setup.py build

10. Optional: run testcases:

python setup.py test

Summary on 2009-23-02 on Windows 2000:

Ran 558 tests in 1281.032s

FAILED (skips=8, expectedFailures=4, errors=1, unexpectedSuccesses=6, successes=
539)

Running as different user

0. Create the new user account

1. Run tahoe through "runas":

   runas /user:Computer\Tahoeuser "bin\tahoe.exe start C:\tahoe-basedir"
   

2. Adjust file system permissions as needed and possible (Home Editions of Windows lack user interfaces to modify permissions)