How to Build an installer for Windows

Preparing MINGW environment

Install mingw and edit c:\python[versionNumber]\lib\distutils\distutils.cfg file:

[build]
compiler=mingw32

Read http://www.python.org/doc/current/inst/tweak-flags.html for versions prior to python2.4

More docs:

• http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/Python%20extensions
• http://sebsauvage.net/python/mingw.html

Building 4Suite installer

c:\Python24\python.exe setup.py  --package=4Suite-XML bdist_inno

Building Amara installer

C:\Amara-1.1.9>c:\Python24\python.exe setup.py bdist_inno