InstallingPynguinOnWindows modified by Lee Harr

Lee Harr — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 19:10:09 -0000

You may want to get someone who has more computer experience help you get everything installed. It can be complicated and frustrating sometimes.

The Portable Python Method

This may be the easiest way to go. It does not require "installing" anything on your Windows computer.

Get Portable Python

Go to http://www.portablepython.com/
Get the latest Portable Python that starts with 3
- Portable Python includes everything you will need to run pynguin
- Get the latest version of pynguin
Unpack Portable Python
Unpack pynguin
You will need to start pynguin from a command line
- The command will look something like
  - \path\to\portablepython\App\python.exe \path\to\pynguin_folder\pynguin
- Once you have the command working, put it in a .bat file so you can just click on it to run pynguin

The Install Python and PyQt Method

Download

Get the latest version of Pynguin from the download page

Get the one with the .zip file extension

Extract

You cannot open a .zip file with Python. Python only opens .py files.

You need to extract the .zip file using a program that can extract .zip archives.

Assuming you are using a recent version of Windows, you should be able to just double-click on the pynguin-0.17.zip file in windows explorer to extract the files from the archive.

That should leave you with a folder called pynguin-0.17

Read the README

See the instructions in the README file.

Dependencies

These are other installs you must do before Pynguin will work

Now, you need to have a 3-series Python installed. (That does not include Iron Python which is a completely different thing altogether.)

I recommend Python-3.7.1 :

https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.1/python-3.7.1-amd64.exe

You will also need a recent PyQt. For the current version of Pynguin, it must be PyQt5.

Install Python first, then to install PyQt5 and QScintilla use the command lines:

pip3 install PyQt5

pip3 install QScintilla

You may need to include the full path to pip3

Run

There is no way, currently, to run Pynguin by double-clicking an icon on windows. You will need to run it from the command line.

Open your command prompt and change directories to the pynguin folder.

Run pynguin with:

python pynguin

or you may need to do something like

c:\path\to\python start_pynguin.py

or even

c:\path\to\python c:\full\path\to\start_pynguin.py

Once you get the necessary command worked out, you can put it in to a .bat file to make a clickable launcher.

Help Out the Next Person

If you have any comments, clarifications, or questions, please post them below.

If you know how to set things up to be easier for users to run the program on windows, please contact me.

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