1 The standalone Windows installer for Mercurial is built in a somewhat

     2 jury-rigged fashion.

     3 

     4 It has the following prerequisites, at least as I build it:

     5 

     6   Python for Windows

     7       http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.1/python-2.4.1.msi

     8 

     9   MinGW

    10       http://www.mingw.org/

    11 

    12   Python for Windows Extensions

    13       http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/

    14 

    15   mfc71.dll (just download, don't install)

    16       http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/

    17 

    18   The py2exe distutils extension

    19       http://sourceforge.net/projects/py2exe/

    20 

    21   Inno Setup

    22       http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

    23 

    24   ISTool

    25       http://www.istool.org/default.aspx/

    26 

    27 And, of course, Mercurial itself.

    28 

    29 Once you have all this installed and built, clone a copy of the

    30 Mercurial repository you want to package, and name the repo

    31 C:\hg\hg-release.

    32 

    33 In a shell, build a standalone copy of the hg.exe program:

    34 

    35   python setup.py build -c mingw32 py2exe -b 1

    36 

    37 Copy mfc71.dll into the dist directory that just got created.

    38 

    39 Run ISTool, and open the C:\hg\hg-release\contrib\win32\mercurial.iss

    40 file.

    41 

    42 In ISTool, type Ctrl-F9 to compile the installer file.  The actual

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