[Grecipe-manager-devel] Running Gourmet on Windows

[Thomas M. H. <tmh...@gm...>]

Hi everyone -- recently a new volunteer (Bernard) has started doing some
work getting Gourmet up and running on Windows. I updated some of the
instructions on the webpage and he was able to get it running. Below is a
list of what he had to do to get Gourmet running -- of course the real goal
is to get a fast packaging system set up so that we get windows releases
out. Hopefully this will work out, but in case it doesn't, I'm posting a
copy of an e-mail which lists everything he had to do to get Gourmet
running, and what it looked like once it ran.

Bernard's wary of letting his name and e-mail address out on the big bad web
(i.e. onto the mailing list), which is why I'm posting this for him.

Tom

1) I installed the following in this order:

7z442.msi
TortoiseCVS-1.8.29.exe
python-2.4.4.msi
gtk-2.10.6-win32-1.exe
pygtk-2.8.6-1.win32-py2.4.exe
pycairo-1.0.2-1.win32-py2.4.exe
PIL-1.1.5.win32-py2.4.exe
py2exe-0.6.5.win32-py2.4.exe
PyRTF-0.45.tar.gz and did a "python.exe setup.py install"
ReportLab_2_0.zip and did a "python.exe setup.py install"
pysqlite-2.3.2.win32-py2.4.exe
pywin32-210.win32-py2.4.exe

You'll notice I had to install a couple of extra bits not mentioned in the
build page, but no dramas.

2) I got hold of the GRM source and did a "C:\Python24\python.exe setup.py
install" via the command prompt.  All good so far.

3) From the command prompt I ran "C:\Python24\python.exe
C:\Python24\gourmet\gourmet".

The first time I ran it, the GUI comes up and imports nutritional
information, then comes up with the empty recipe index (as it should).