1 2 TTX 2.0 for Windows 3 ------------------------- 4 5 Creating a Windows (9x/ME/NT/2000/XP) setup executable for TTX 6 This file has been created by Adam Twardoch <list.adam (a] twardoch.com> 7 December 14, 2004 8 9 Pre-compiled versions are hosted at http://www.font.org/software/ttx/ 10 11 APPROACH I: Using py2exe and InnoSetup 12 13 1. Install Python 2.3 for Windows: http://www.python.org/ 14 2. Install py2exe: http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/ 15 3. Install InnoSetup 4: http://www.jrsoftware.org/ 16 4. Download the latest released source code of TTX/FontTools at 17 http://sourceforge.net/projects/fonttools/ 18 Or alternatively grab the sources from the VCS: 19 http://fonttools.sourceforge.net/ 20 5. Unzip the source code of TTX/FontTools into a folder. 21 6. In the folder where you unzipped TTX/FontTools, type: 22 python setup.py py2exe --icon Windows\ttx.ico --packages encodings 23 7. Run Inno Setup and open Windows\fonttools-win-setup.iss 24 8. In Inno Setup, select File/Compile, then Run/Run. 25 26 APPROACH II: Using McMillan Installer and InnoSetup 27 28 1. Install Python 2.3 for Windows: http://www.python.org/ 29 2. Download and unpack McMillan installer: 30 http://py.vaults.ca/apyllo2.py/22208368 31 and put the Installer folder into your Python folder, 32 e.g. C:\Python23\Installer 33 3. Install InnoSetup 4: http://www.jrsoftware.org/ 34 4. Install Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003: 35 http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/ 36 5. Put UPX somewhere within your PATH: http://upx.sourceforge.net/ 37 6. Download the latest released source code of TTX/FontTools at 38 http://sourceforge.net/projects/fonttools/ 39 Or alternatively grab the sources from the VCS: 40 http://fonttools.sourceforge.net/ 41 7. Unzip the source code of TTX/FontTools into a folder. 42 8. In the folder where you unzipped TTX/FontTools, type: 43 python setup.py install -f 44 9. Edit mcmillan.bat so the paths in the file correspond to the paths in your system, 45 and run it. 46 10.Run Inno Setup and open Windows\fonttools-win-setup.iss 47 11.In Inno Setup, select File/Compile, then Run/Run. 48 49 The distributable TTX Windows setup executable has been saved 50 in the Output subfolder of the FontTools\Windows folder. 51 52 For information on running TTX on Windows, see fonttools-win-setup.txt in this folder. 53 54
