[tahoe-dev] tahoe-dev Digest, Vol 37, Issue 23

Mon Apr 26 15:57:11 UTC 2010

Thanks Fred - that helped immensely. I was able to build this morning 
without error based on the instructions in the advanced install. The key 
bits seemed to be mention that MinGW needs g++ and not base components 
as the mail thread implied, and that the email thread had wiki markup 
code around the file contents whereas the advanced install page clearly 
shows what should be in the config file.

Alrighty roo - time to start playing. :)

Matthew Reinbold
Creative Principal, Vox Pop Design, http://voxpopdesign.com

On 4/26/2010 12:35 AM, FreeStorm . wrote:
> Hello Matthew,
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>> That downloaded several "eggs" (not familiar with Python) but seemed to fail
>> with the error "Unable to find vcvarsall.bat".
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> I think this error occur because python is looking for a C-Compiller.
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> Take a look on this page:
> http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AdvancedInstall
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> Follow the instruction on the section: "What if that doesn't work?"
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> If you have python 2.6 , you can just follow point 1 to 3
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> I hope this help.
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> 2010/4/26 Matthew Reinbold<matthew.reinbold at voxpopdesign.com>:
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>> Hello all,
>>
>> First time poster. I came upon the Tahoe project a couple of weeks ago and
>> thought it would be an ideal fit for sharing sensitive documents via the
>> distributed company I run. However, I having difficulty trying to get up and
>> running.
>>
>> I'm on Windows XP and am current with all updates. I followed the setup
>> instructions for Windows found here (however, I used the latest versions for
>> all available items rather than the specific version numbers):
>> http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/quickstart.html
>>
>> After downloading and unzipping all items I attempted to run:
>> python setup.py build
>>
>> That downloaded several "eggs" (not familiar with Python) but seemed to fail
>> with the error "Unable to find vcvarsall.bat".
>>
>> Searching Google I first found this page:
>> http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-October/003044.html
>>
>> Downloading the specific versions referenced there continued to fail.
>> Further Googling turned up detailed, expanded number of configuration
>> details:
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/tahoe-dev@allmydata.org/msg01587.html
>>
>> Following that, however, I seemed to have regressed. The error I now get:
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>> C:\tahoe>python setup.py build
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "setup.py", line 384, in<module>
>>      **setup_args
>>    File "C:\Python2-6-2\lib\distutils\core.py", line 126, in setup
>>      dist.parse_config_files()
>>    File "C:\Python2-6-2\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 374, in
>> parse_config_files
>>      parser.read(filename)
>>    File "C:\Python2-6-2\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 286, in read
>>      self._read(fp, filename)
>>    File "C:\Python2-6-2\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 482, in _read
>>      raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
>> ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
>> file: C:\Python2-6-2\lib\distutils\distutils.cfg, line: 1
>> '{{{\n'
>>
>> Did I do something wrong to copy and paste the contents of the distutils.cfg
>> shown on that final web page? The page is from last summer - is there an
>> easy way of getting Tahoe running on a Windows machine?
>>
>> One of the biggest needs is to have the install process as simple as
>> possible if I am going to get the principals on board to using Tahoe. If
>> installation on a Linux based system that much easier would it make sense to
>> create a VM with Tahoe already installed and just have them run that image
>> on their machine in something like Virtual Box?
>>
>> Matthew Reinbold
>> Creative Principal, Vox Pop Design, http://voxpopdesign.com
>>
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>> Today's Topics:
>>     1. Windows buildbot needed (Zooko O'Whielacronx)
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>> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:40:05 -0600
>> From: "Zooko O'Whielacronx"<zookog at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [tahoe-dev] Windows buildbot needed
>> To: tahoe-dev<tahoe-dev at allmydata.org>
>> Cc: tahoe-dev at quake.ca
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>> Folks:
>> The Windows buildbot was contributed by allmydata.com and it has gone
>> off-line. (I suspect allmydata.com is repurposing the hardware. Or
>> possibly it will come back on-line -- I don't know.)
>> Could anyone run a Windows buildbot for us? Your Windows machine
>> doesn't have to be online 24/7, but it ought to be on-line for at
>> least an hour per day in order to be a useful buildbot.
>> Thanks!
>> In other buildbot news, David Triendl's and Midnight Magic's buildbots
>> are disconnected from the buildmaster. See the Supported Builders link
>> from here: http://tahoe-lafs.org/buildbot/
>> Regards,
>> Zooko
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