Serious dependency issues

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 23:45

There are a number of statements on this site that imply the installer stands alone and is all you need to get Devede running on windows. However after installing and running it, it doesn't open any kind of gui, only a process. A bit more digging shows the need to have GTK+, pygtk, pygobject, each of which I believe require Mingw/MSYS to get going, and not to mention python2.5 (is python 3.2 backwards compatible for this?) Additionally, GTK+ at gtk.org lists about a dozen or so dependencies, which I assume will require some work in MinGW before GTK+ will even work.

My questions are, am I making this harder than it needs to be or does it seriously require all of this?
Also, before I go down this rabbit hole, can someone kindly point me to some shortcuts, as nowhere on the site does it suggest it will take a week compiling dependencies in order to get the gui to work.

I love Devede on Linux and I'd love to get it going on windows too.

I'm using Windows 7 x64. Any help would be appreciated.

peter

Wed, 03/30/2011 - 11:27

All you need is the installer. It includes everything that is needed (gtk, pygtk, pygobject, python 2.6 and so on). It is built using py2exe which bundles all the dependencies.

What you are seeing is a bug. I've seen that happen before. You can try killing that process and then try restarting devede. For whatever reasons it runs but does not display the user interface on some systems and only after building the package with py2exe. It always works when running directly with python which requires all the development files listed at http://majorsilence.com/windows_devede_development_instructions.

The thing is the problem does not really affect me so I do not really care to spend much time on it unless I am able to reproduce it following a simple list of steps. Secondly none of this stuff runs well on windows. GTK, PyGTK, pygobject, dvdauthor, spumux are all not well maintained on windows (lack of personnel) and it is lucky they even run. Even python when running subprocesses and reading output asynchronously is much more difficult on windows. The list of what could be causing the problem is GTK, PyGTK, py2xe. Or it could be when devede starts up it verify each of its back end programs works correctly and that could be locking up so it never displays the user interface.

I generally point people to http://www.vso-software.fr/products/convert_x_to_dvd/ or http://www.dvdflick.net/ if devede does not work. Or if they are a programmer I point them to http://majorsilence.com/windows_devede_development_instructions.