Help,
I've downloaded and unzipped the 6 gnue - files. from Jan Ischebeck article I am installing on Windows 2000 so I installed installed python, wxwidgets, the kinterbasdb firebird
Jan Ischebeck <address@hidden>
v0.03, 2003-11-22
This mini HOWTO describes how to get the GNUenterprise packages release 0.5.x to work on Windows 98 in combination with for example PostgreSQL or MySQL)
* get and install the file from <http://www.egenix.com/files/python/egenix-mx-base-2.0.4.win32-py2.2.exe>
* which can be found at: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/eGenix-mx-Extensions.html#Download-mxBASE <http://www.egenix.com/files/python/eGenix-mx-Extensions.html>
3. The uidriver packages (you need at least one)
3.1 wxPython (required for wxwindows uidriver)
* get wxPython Binaries from http://www.wxpython.org/download.php#binaries <http://www.wxpython.org/download.php>
* I would recommend to use the normal version, but possibly the unicode builds work too.
* Use the version for python2.2
3.3 win32all (required for win32 uidriver)
* load win32all package from <http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/Downloads.html>
* should be build 152 or so.
4. Database driver for python
4.3 Firebird/Interbase driver
* get it from <http://sourceforge.net/projects/kinterbasdb/>
5 The GNUe Tools
5.1 Preparations
* fetch it from <http://www.gnuenterprise.org/downloads/hourly.php>
* store it and unzip the archive
Then:
* create the following script (you can do it with notepad and store the file as install.bat)
C:\python22\python.exe setup.py install
* you should replace C:\python2.2 with the path where you installed python
* store that file in the subdirectory gnue-common of the unzipped cvs snapshot
* copy and paste the file to the rest of the snapshot subdirs (gnue-forms, gnue-designer ....)
5.2 Install
* switch into gnue-common and double click on that 'install.bat' file you created. Now gnue-common should be installed.
Repeat these steps for the modules GNUe-Designer, GNUe-Forms, GNUe-AppServer and GNUe-Navigator
5.3 Convinence
* create a batch file "gnue-forms" with the following content in the scripts subdirectory of your python installation:
C:\python22\python C:\python22\Scripts\gnue-forms %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
* do the same step for: GNUe-Designer, GNUe-Forms, GNUe-AppServer and GNUe-Navigator
* you can then create links to these files on your desktop or in the programm menu
* you should double click on a forms file f.e. intro.gfd in gnue-forms/samples/intro and assosiate it with the gnue-forms.bat script
Everything seems to work up to this last point when I double click on the file - here I get a traceback error at line 26 or 30 (it varied from attempt to attempt). I copied the parts that I went through as the others seemed to be choices or for other databases or versions of windows.
I will try again later but unless someone can give me other things to try or alternative directions I am probably out of luck as I know absolutely nothing about Python itself to troubleshoot with. I also tried the windows install routines for gnue forms and runtime but it can't find gnue-forms when I try to start it and required me to install on my cramped C: drive. I will probably try to move other things to my D: drive and then install everything on my C: drive if nothing else works.
Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated as this environment
looks and sounds most like the paradox objPal enviroment I'm framiliar with
(okay a after I get running and can spend a few months playing with it, I'd
drink most of the coffee anyway.
Thanks in advance.
tom keating