BUILDING ALLMYDATA.ORG TAHOE ON WINDOWS

There are three ways to do it:

ALL CYGWIN ALL THE TIME 

If you are building on Windows, then the easy way is to install cygwin and
use cygwin version of Python and the cygwin versions of all dependencies
(which will happen naturally if you follow the main README file -- note that
you cannot use Windows-native versions of any of the dependencies -- they all
have to be cygwin versions).  So if you are taking this approach then you
don't need to read the rest of this README.win32 file at all.

CYGWIN TOOLS TO BUILD WINDOWS-NATIVE LIBRARIES

The second-easiest way is to install cygwin and use cygwin development tools
such as bash, GNU make, gcc, etc., but install the Windows-native version of
Python and the Windows-native versions of all of the dependencies.  If you
create a distutils config file (as per
http://docs.python.org/inst/config-syntax.html ) and put "compiler=mingw32"
in it, then you can follow the rest of the main README file and the
dependencies will all be automatically built (by the cygwin gcc compiler) as
Windows-native libraries.  This README.win32 file contains some extra notes
about how to take this approach.

OTHER BUILD TOOLS

The third-easiest way is to use a Microsoft compiler or some other compiler.
Our README files do not currently explain how to do that.  You are on your
own for now, but please feel free to contribute a document which explains how
to build all these dependencies using your favorite compiler.


Okay, here are some notes about following the "CYGWIN TOOLS TO BUILD
WINDOWS-NATIVE LIBRARIES" approach:


EXTRA MANUAL DEPENDENCIES

In addition to the dependencies listed in the main README file, you also need
the following:

 + the pywin32 package (210 or later)

   http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/


NOTES ABOUT BUILDING OPENSSL

In order to compile the tahoe source you need to have libeay32.dll version
0.9.8.5 and ssleay32.dll version 0.9.8.5 or newer installed. If you find that 
you have the wrong version of either of these dlls, you can download and 
compile openssl from http://openssl.org. 

You will need to have perl installed to compile openssl. One place where you 
can find a version of perl is http://www.activestate.com/products/activeperl.

If you want to compile openssl using Visual Studio, you may find adding your 
Visual Studio bin, include and lib directories to your %PATH% environment 
variable helpful. For example, if you're compiling with VS2005:

   "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Bin;C:\Program Files\
   Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual 
   Studio 8\VC\PlatformSDK\Include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 
   8\VC\lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\PlatformSDK\Lib"
 

NOTES ABOUT INSTALLING PYOPENSSL

To install PyOpenSSL on Windows-native, download this:

http://allmydata.org/source/pyOpenSSL-0.6.win32-py2.5.exe

or for Python 2.4, this:

http://allmydata.org/source/pyOpenSSL-0.6.win32-py2.4.exe