Commit 7a817a2d authored by owsla's avatar owsla

Further README updates for Windows systems.


git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup@925 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
parent 7a3d4513
......@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ is available from the Python guide, Installing Python Modules for System
Administrators, located at http://docs.python.org/inst/inst.html,
particularly Section 4.
To build from source on Windows, you can use the command:
python setup.py py2exe --single-file
to build a single executable file which contains Python, librsync, and
all required modules.
REQUIREMENTS:
Remember that you must have Python 2.2 or later and librsync 0.9.7 or
......@@ -40,10 +47,15 @@ later installed. For Python, see http://www.python.org. The
rdiff-backup homepage at http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/ should
have a recent version of librsync; otherwise see the librsync homepage
at http://librsync.sourceforge.net/. On Windows, you must have the
Python for Windows extensions installed: http://pywin32.sourceforge.net/
Python for Windows extensions installed if you are building from source.
The extensions can be downloaded from: http://pywin32.sourceforge.net/
If you are not building from source on Windows, you do not need Python
or librsync; they are bundled with the executable.
For remote operation, rdiff-backup should be installed and in the
PATH on remote system(s) (see man page for more information).
PATH on remote system(s) (see man page for more information). On
Windows, if you are using the provided .exe binary, you must have an
SSH package installed for remote operation.
The python modules pylibacl and pyxattr are optional. If they are
installed and in the default pythonpath, rdiff-backup will support
......@@ -60,8 +72,8 @@ or later.
TROUBLESHOOTING:
If you have everything installed properly, and it still doesn't work,
see the enclosed FAQ.html, the web page at
http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/, and/or the mailing list.
see the enclosed FAQ.html, the web page at http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org,
the Wiki at: http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org, and/or the mailing list.
The FAQ in particular is an important reference, especially if you are
using smbfs/CIFS, Windows, or have compiled by hand on Mac OS X.
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