BuildingSpeedSightRead

Prerequisites

If you installed on a windows system using the installshield, and you are only interested in using the software, you don't need this document.

In order to build and run SpeedSightRead from source, you need to install some tools:

Getting the source code

• If you want to get the latest source code, you need git. The easiest way to install git on a windows system probably is to install Git extensions. On other systems you can install git from a suitable package using your package manager.

Building the source code

• To interpret the build scripts you need have a version of GNU make. On Windows systems you can use the win32 port of GNU make.
• To generate the icons, you will need to have lilypond, inkscape and imagemagick. On a Windows system, make sure you add the location of their executables into the PATH environment variable.

• On the command line, run the command

  make all

Running the source code

• In order to run the source code you will need python version 2.X (www.python.org) (version 3.X won't work - you have been warned).
• In addition you will need PyQt4.

Making an installshield

• First you need to be able to create an executable. For this you need to install py2exe.
• If you also want to build an installshield for windows systems you will need to install NSIS. It's quite convenient to edit or run the NSIS script included in the source code from NSISEdit