From 9fb0b983b5f4f40a9f26037714c22694a8137d62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ndurner <>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:29:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Building from tarball, running as different user
[Imported from Trac: page WindowsBuild, version 3]
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@@ -1,3 +1,25 @@
+## Content
+
+**Building from a tarball**
+**Building darcs trunk**
+**Running as different user**
+
+
+## Building from a tarball
+
+0. Install Python 2.5 ()
+
+1. Add the Python to the search path (rough translation from German Windows 2000):
+Start -> Settings -> System control -> System -> Enhanced -> Environment variables -> System variables: add ";C:\Python25;C:\Python25\Scripts;" to the "Path" entry
+
+2. Install win32api for Python 2.5 ()
+Note: Build 213 does not work on Windows 2000, Build 212 does.
+
+3. Open the command line interpreter (command/cmd), cd to the tahoe directory and build it:
+ python setup.py build
+
+## Building darcs trunk
+
0. Install Python 2.5 ()
1. Install Darcs (, "Windows without Cygwin")
@@ -16,7 +38,7 @@ Note: Build 213 does not work on Windows 2000, Build 212 does.
6. Download Twisted, setuptools_darcs and setuptools_trial from
-7. Open the command line (cmd/command)
+7. Open the command line interpreter (cmd/command)
8. cd to your download directory
@@ -41,4 +63,13 @@ Ran 558 tests in 1281.032s
FAILED (skips=8, expectedFailures=4, errors=1, unexpectedSuccesses=6, successes=
539)
+```
+
+## Running as different user
+
+0. Create the new user account
+
+1. Run tahoe through "runas":
+```
+runas /user:Computer\Tahoeuser "bin\tahoe.exe start C:\tahoe-basedir"
```
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