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Windows development environment

Windows is complicated by the fact that we provide both 32-bit and 64-bit builds of Inselect

Install Miniconda3 64 bit

  • Download and run Miniconda3-latest-Windows-x86_64.exe

    • Destination folder should be called Miniconda64
    • Uncheck 'Add Anaconda to my PATH'
    • Uncheck 'Register Anaconda as my default Python 2.7'

Minicoda3-64 shortcut

I find it useful to have a shortcut on the desktop and taskbar, configured as follows:

* Target: `C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k "C:\Users\<your Windows username>\Miniconda64\Scripts\activate.bat"`
* Name Miniconda3-64
* Start in: `C:\Users\<your Windows username>\`
* Font: Consolas, 16
* Layout: Buffer size, Width: 140
* Layout: Window size, Width: 140

Install Miniconda3 32 bit

Miniconda3-32 shortcut

I find it useful to have a shortcut on the desktop and taskbar, configured as follows:

* Target: `C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k "C:\Users\<your Windows username>\Miniconda32\Scripts\activate.bat"`
* Name Miniconda3-32
* Start in: `C:\Users\<your Windows username>\`
* Font: Consolas, 16
* Layout: Buffer size, Width: 140
* Layout: Window size, Width: 140

Instructions common to both 32-bit and 64-bit

You should run through these for both the 32-bit and 64-bit environments that you created above.

Inselect environment

conda update --yes conda
conda env create -f inselect.yml
activate inselect
conda install pywin32=220
FOR /F %a IN ('python -c "import sys; print(sys.exec_prefix)"') DO %a\python %a\Scripts\pywin32_postinstall.py -install
pip install -r requirements.pip

Don't worry about the "Can't install shortcuts..." message when you run the pywin32_postinstall step.

Inlite barcode reading library

Download and install the Inlite ClearImage SDK. Run the 'Inlite Control Center' application to get an evaluation key.

Patch cx_Freeze

There is a bug in cx_Freeze 5.0. Make the change to finder.py descibed in the bug report.

Test barcode reading libraries

Inselect has optional barcode reading capabilities. The dependent libraries should have been installed.

python -c "from gouda.engines import LibDMTXEngine; print(LibDMTXEngine.available())"
python -c "from gouda.engines import ZbarEngine; print(ZbarEngine.available())"
python -c "from gouda.engines import InliteEngine; print(InliteEngine.available())"

Developing

Icons are stored as individual files in icons. They are frozen into a python file inselect/gui/icons.py by running

pyrcc5 icons.qrc > inselect/gui/icons.py

Test and run

nosetests --verbose --with-coverage --cover-inclusive --cover-tests --cover-package=inselect inselect

Run inselect

python -m inselect.scripts.inselect

Build

The build script freezes icons, runs tests, freezes python and assembles files into an installer.

build.bat

The installer will be in dist.