windows.md

Installation on Windows

The following works on Windows 8.1 with Cygwin. Alternative to sudo (which is found in the Linux instructions): run Cygwin as administrator or use cygstart --action=runas followed by the command.

Install pip

See: pip installation guide.

Install some required Cygwin packages

These can be found and downloaded through the Cygwin setup.exe process or using apt-cyg, if installed:

curl
make
python-setuptools
libmysqlclient-devel
mysql
mysqld
libmysqld-devel
libpng-devel
libboost_python-devel
pkg-config

Download & install Freetype2

Ensure you have GNU Make version 3.78.1 or higher by running make -v.

$ cd /tmp
$ curl -L 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/freetype/freetype-2.5.3.tar.bz2' > freetype-2.5.3.tar.bz2
$ tar xfj freetype-2.5.3.tar.bz2
$ cd freetype-2.5.3
$ sed -i  -e "/AUX.*.gxvalid/s@^# @@" -e "/AUX.*.otvalid/s@^# @@" modules.cfg
$ sed -ri -e 's:.*(#.*SUBPIXEL.*) .*:\1:' include/config/ftoption.h
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static
$ make
$ make install

Install dark matter from PyPI

Note that if you are running Python 2, you should use the requirements-2.txt file in the following.

$ pip install dark-matter
$ cd dark-matter
$ pip install -r requirements-3.txt

Set PYTHONPATH

You may want to add the dark-matter directory (the one that was created above by git clone) to your PYTHONPATH.

Install a taxonomy database (optional)

See taxonomy.md for details.