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[Note: this page has been adapted from contrib/win32/win32-build.txt found in Mercurial's source tree]
The standalone Windows installer for Mercurial is built in a somewhat jury-rigged fashion.
Prerequisites
It has the following prerequisites, at least as I build it:
Python for Windows
MinGW
Python for Windows Extensions
mfc71.dll (just download, don't install)
The py2exe distutils extension
Inno Setup
ISTool (optional)
add_path (you need only add_path.exe in the zip file)
And, of course, Mercurial itself
Building Installer
Once you have all this installed and built, clone a copy of the Mercurial repository you want to package, and name the repo C:\hg\hg-release.
Open a command prompt window on C:\hg\hg-release, then build a standalone copy of the hg.exe program:
python setup.py build -c mingw32 python setup.py py2exe -b 1
Note: the previously suggested combined command of "python setup.py build -c mingw32 py2exe -b 1" doesn't work correctly anymore as it doesn't include the extensions in the mercurial subdirectory.
Alternatively, you can create a file named setup.cfg in the root of the repository (C:\hg\hg-release) with the following contents:
[build] compiler=mingw32
which would allow you to skip the first build step and just run:
python setup.py py2exe -b 1
Copy mfc71.dll and add_path.exe into the dist directory that just got created.
If Inno Setup is in your path you can run:
iscc contrib\win32\mercurial.iss
Or you can run ISTool, and open the C:\hg\hg-release\contrib\win32\mercurial.iss file. In ISTool, type Ctrl-F9 to compile the installer file.
The actual installer will be in the C:\hg\hg-release\Output directory.
To automate the steps above you may want to create a batchfile based on the following:
echo [build] > setup.cfg echo compiler=mingw32 >> setup.cfg python setup.py py2exe -b 1 iscc contrib\win32\mercurial.iss
and run it from the root of the hg repository (C:\hg\hg-release).