http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.3/python-2.4.3.msi

  ISTool - optional

  python setup.py build -c mingw32 

  python setup.py py2exe -b 1

Note: the previously suggested combined command of "python setup.py build -c

mingw32 py2exe -b 1" doesn't work correctly anymore as it doesn't include the

extensions in the mercurial subdirectory.

If you want to create a file named setup.cfg with the contents:

[build]

compiler=mingw32

you can skip the first build step.

Copy mfc71.dll and add_path.exe into the dist directory that just got created.

If you use ISTool, you open the C:\hg\hg-release\contrib\win32\mercurial.iss

file and type Ctrl-F9 to compile the installer file.

Otherwise you run the Inno Setup compiler.  Assuming it's on the path you run:

  iscc contrib\win32\mercurial.iss

The actual installer will be in the C:\hg\hg-release\Output directory.

To automate the steps above you may want to create a batchfile based on the

following:

  echo [build] > setup.cfg

  echo compiler=mingw32 >> setup.cfg

  python setup.py py2exe -b 1

  iscc contrib\win32\mercurial.iss

and run it from the root of the hg repository (c:\hg\hg-release).