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Installing Windmill From Source

MacOSX

Pre Reqs

• Install xcode: http://developer.apple.com/technology/xcode.html
• Install subversion: http://subversion.tigris.org/
• Install easy_install:
  • Download http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py

    sudo python ez_setup.py 
    

Install

svn co http://svn.getwindmill.com/trunk/ windmill
cd windmill
sudo python setup.py develop

Run

windmill shell { firefox|safari } http://www.google.com 

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Linux

Pre Reqs

• Install subversion, python and setuptools

  sudo apt-get install subversion
  sudo apt-get install python2.5
  wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
  sudo python ez_setup.py
  

Install

svn co http://svn.getwindmill.com/trunk/ windmill
cd windmill
sudo python setup.py develop

Run

windmill shell firefox http://www.google.com 

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Windows

Pre Reqs

• (optional) Install cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/
  • Install from the internet
  • Select packages to install, devel > subversion ( * NOTE: do NOT install the subversion-devel, and make all python packages are unchecked)

• Install Python: http://www.python.org/download/
  • Add Python to your PATH
  • Right click on "My Computer".
  • Select "Properties" from the context menu.
  • In the "System Properties" dialog box, click on the "Advanced" tab.
  • Click on the "Environment Variables" button.
  • Highlight the "Path" Variable in "System variables" section.
  • Click the "Edit" button.
  • Append the following lines to the text inside the "Variable value" text box semi-colon delimited.

    C:\Python25\
    C:\Python25\Scripts\
    

    • *NOTE: If either entry already exists in the text box, do not add a redundant copy.

• Click "OK" on the "Edit System Variable" dialog box then "OK" on the "Environment Variables" dialog box to commit the changes.

• Install setuptools
  • Download http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
  • Run 'python ez_setup.py' from directory where you saved the file

    python ez_setup.py 
    

• Install simplejson (If using Python 2.6 skip this step as simplejson is built into Python 2.6)

  easy_install http://files.turbogears.org/eggs/simplejson-1.9.2-py2.5-win32.egg 
  

• Install the Windows Python extensions: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78018

Install

• NOTE: If you are not using cygwin, you must install subversion or use tortoise svn

svn co http://svn.getwindmill.com/trunk/ windmill
cd windmill
python setup.py develop

Run

windmill shell {browser: ie || firefox} http://www.google.com 

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What do I do now?

The Windmill functionality is explained in depth in The Windmill Book