Windows Development

Automatic development environment setup

Everything required for Plover development can automatically be installed by executing: windows\setup.bat.

Manual development environment setup

Python

It is best to develop using 32 bit tools for Plover.

• Python 2.7 x86_32

Note: Python 2.7.9+ comes with pip

Externally hosted dependencies

• Cython
• Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7
• Python for Windows Extensions
• wxPython

Other dependencies

Most dependencies can be retrieved with pip:

• python setup.py write_requirements
• pip install -r requirements.txt

Running Plover in development

To run from source, from the root of the Git repository, use launch.bat.

Building

To build to an exe, you can pip install pyinstaller. Then, run python windows\helper.py dist; the result will be in dist.